eBooks - Romance - Romance - Elizabeth Thornton - The Pleasure Trap
The Pleasure Trap eBooks
by Elizabeth Thornton
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The Pleasure Trap Summary
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Chapter One Henley, March 1818 Two letters that Eve was expecting arrived that morning, two letters that gave no hint of the storm they would soon let loose. Eve took them with her into the breakfast room and read them as she absently sipped her tea. The first letter she opened was from her publisher, Leigh Fleming, reminding her of the symposium and reception he hosted for all his authors and their friends every year at the Clarendon Hotel. The second was from Lady Sayers, inviting her, along with the other writers, to spend a few days at her home in London after the symposium was over. What was unusual about Lady Sayers's invitation was that her ladyship wanted Eve to extend her visit to take in the Season. Eve didn't have to think about how she would answer Leigh's invitation. A writer's life was a lonely one, and she had come to look forward to these get-togethers with other authors, all of them females. In the last few years, their Gothic tales of romance and mystery had taken the public by storm. Women adored their stories, though gentlemen more often than not laughed themselves silly or treated their books with disdain. As a result, no writer of Gothic romances dared reveal her true identity. Instead, each used a pseudonym. They were celebrities, but invisible celebrities, except to one another and a trusted few. Eve didn't mind. The monies accumulating in her bank account were ample reward for doing what she liked to do best. She was born to be a writer. Hadn't Mama always said so The invitation from Lady Sayers required a little more thought. She was a fellow writer who lived in the lovely district of Kennington, and when she wasn't writing, she mixed with the... |
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