![]() ![]() MacRae in,” Merritt said, “you might tell me why he’s angry.” As the third son of an earl, his options had been limited, and as he’d remarked, a fellow couldn’t earn a living by sitting around looking picturesque. He’d accepted the offer without hesitation. That, among other reasons, was why she’d asked him to take over the management of her late husband’s shipping company, once she’d taught him the ropes. One of the things she enjoyed most about Luke, the youngest of her three brothers, was that he never shielded her from vulgarity or treated her like a delicate flower. ![]() I had a friend at Cambridge who knew at least a dozen different words for testicles.” “But Scotsmen have a special gift for cursing. “After all the time I’ve spent around longshoremen, nothing could shock me now.” “I’ve spent nearly three years managing a shipping firm,” she pointed out. Merritt, on the other hand, was the only one out of the half-dozen siblings who’d ended up short and full-figured. Like the rest of the Marsden brood, Luke had inherited their mother’s long, elegant lines. Her brother was a handsome sight, with his windblown dark hair and his complexion infused with color from the brisk autumn air. ![]() Lady Merritt Sterling looked up from her desk with a faint smile. ![]() “If you’ve never been around a Scotsman in a temper, you’d better brace yourself for the language.” “MacRae is as angry as a baited bear,” Luke Marsden warned as he entered the office. To the marvelous Eloisa James, who got me through 2020. ![]()
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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. ![]() Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, stored in, or introduced into a database or retrieval system, in any form, or by any means, without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. THE PRINCESS FUGITIVE: A REIMAGINING OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOODĪll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. These events also cause her dislocation from the happy family and from her high station in life - loss of plenitude coded as loss of place. Adeline’s first, irrecoverable loss of plenitude, her originary trauma, is the death of her mother and the subsequent murder of her father. Wealthy and high-ranking, her biological family was indeed a site of originary plenitude. 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In the five acts, each scene presents as chapters, making solving the book’s mystery well-paced. ![]() The layout of the story is much like a play itself to tie together the drama. Rather, it is up to the reader whether to think like Oliver or not. Some might consider the “If We Were Villains” narrator unreliable, but Oliver’s perspective should be taken with a grain of salt. The reader now has to figure out how Oliver got to where he is now. The entire book contains a mystery looming over the pages, as the very first time we meet Oliver is him getting out of prison. Through Oliver’s point of view, the reader sees events unfold with other characters and their relationship dynamic with him. There are references, quotes and full-on parallels to the works of the British playwright, specifically in “King Lear” as it’s performed in the book. The factor that comes into play throughout the book is Shakespeare. ![]() |