Nefarious Pre-Order Announcement

Good luck everyone in the scavenger hunt. Special thanks to Nicole on a fabulous story. I am amazed and still cannot breathe correctly as this launch approaches. I may have to call for my salts. La!! Shades of Mrs. Bennet. I want to thank all the people who have commented over the months while we played with the excerpts. I have had such fun with you guys. Y’all rock. I have already grabbed my pre-order. I couldn’t help myself.

The answers to the questions? Yes well, you see this is why I need the book because my memory is atrocious! Maybe after the third, fourth, fifth or sixth reading I could answer one or even two but for now I will wait for my pre ordered copy as I have zero chance of winning one. Plus here in the uk it depends on how I receive a prize book and sometimes it doesn’t include the cover! So obviously I DO know all the answers really but just preferred to pre order 😏😏(phew! I think I got away with that!)

1. A single sugar cube broke in half, filled last, so he receives the very darkest and richest tea from the bottom of the pot. ~ chapter 7

2. 7 October 1812 ….Day Two of Enemy Occupation ~ chapter 5

3. Dark green ~ chapter 9

4. Avoiding Bingley’s sisters ~ chapter 2

5. A blue satin ribbon used as a bookmark in his favorite Samuel Johnson book, a gift from his father, brought from London. ~ chapter 4

6. Her voice, the colour of her hair, her twisted smile, her very name. ~ chapter 1

7. disagreeable, pernicious, and vulgar ~ chapter 13

8. the very same way that a Whig likes a Tory, or the English like the French ~ chapter 6

9. “Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. Miss Bingley, however, would make an exquisite partner, do you not agree, Sir William? I do not think it neighbourly to permit a newcomer to our midst to stand on the edge of the room, simply because our own young gentlemen are not acquainted with her.” ~ chapter 3

10. decked the room in an assortment of hothouse flowers. Irises, lilies, orchids, massive sprays of jasmine and geraniums ~ chapter 8

Phew! I guess being bored with insomnia pays off sometimes 😌. Although, I’m not at 100%, so not sure if I have them all correct, lol. Oh well, I already preordered if it’s not ☺️…. So excited to read the rest of the book!

1. Chapter 7 – “She came next to me, but before she poured my tea, she drew out a single sugar cube and broke it in half with the spoon. She then dropped it into the bottom of my empty cup and poured a second cup beside it for herself. My cup she filled last, so that I received the very darkest and richest tea from the bottom of the pot.”

2. Chapter 5 – “7 October 1812, Day Two of Enemy Occupation”

3. Chapter 9 – “She wore a dark green riding habit that fitted in all the right places and accentuated all her most remarkable features.”

4. Chapter 2 – “Avoiding Bingley’s sisters had become something of an art I had perfected over the years.”

5. Chapter 4 – A book his father gave him. “Did Elizabeth Bennet realise, as she so blithely chose a book from the side table, that the simple act had confirmed her villainy in my eyes? Naturally, she could not know that it was a particular favourite of mine that I had brought from London—a gift from my father upon my twenty-first birthday. But devil take it, she ought to have seen the bookmark and understood that someone else was reading it. And when she twirled the blue satin ribbon from my Cambridge days round her fingers as she read, did she comprehend why my responses to everyone else’s conversation suddenly became clipped and irascible?

6. Chapter 1 – There were so many things he said he despised so not sure which quote… ““You, with your second-rate arts and allurements, your studied charm, and the way you teased—as if a bit of whimsy and flirtation were sufficient to secure me!” or ““Their behavior, connections, interests… yes interests… all deplorable.”

7. Chapter 13 – “the single most disagreeable, pernicious, and vulgar woman in all England””

8. Chapter 6 – ““Like her? Well, of course I like her, in the very same way that a Whig likes a Tory, or the English like the French. They are a respectable adversary, a perfect contrast, and one in whose presence our own qualities are so markedly set off.”

9. Chapter 3 – ““Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. Miss Bingley, however, would make an exquisite partner, do you not agree, Sir William?”

10. Chapter 8 – “Miss Bingley, in an effort to show herself the welcoming hostess, had decked the room in an assortment of hothouse flowers. Irises, lilies, orchids, massive sprays of jasmine and geraniums—it gave me a headache just to walk in the door.

Thank you! It’s been a lovely one! The paperback is now available up here so will be putting it on my June order!

came next to me, but before she poured my tea, she drew out a single sugar cube and broke it in half with the spoon. She then dropped it into the bottom of my empty cup and poured a second cup beside it for herself. My cup she filled last, so that I received the very darkest and richest tea from the bottom of the pot.”

2. Chapter 5 – “7 October 1812, Day Two of Enemy Occupation”

3. Chapter 9 – “She wore a dark green riding habit that fitted in all the right places and accentuated all her most remarkable features.”

4. Chapter 2 – “Avoiding Bingley’s sisters had become something of an art I had perfected over the years.”

5. Chapter 4 – A book his father gave him. “Did Elizabeth Bennet realise