pack the body in ice, go to the ball, and hope to God he doesn’t start to smell before they got another sister married off.
Now, a dead husband results in a required year of mourning, which would prevent the sisters from getting married, so the OBVIOUS, LOGICAL choice is to…. Christiana goes to demand that Dicky let them go… and finds him dead.
Then her sisters bully their way in to tell Christiana that their father has gambled away the family fortune… again… and they have two weeks to find the middle sister a husband (so she can use her dower to pay off the debts), so they need to go to a ball ASAP.
He is emotionally and psychologically abusive to her, has isolated her from friends and family, and has convinced her that she’s basically The Worst. This was a HABO from like, two years ago, and a book on sale earlier this month, and someone described this book as a “historical romance Weekend at Bernie‘s” and that was like putting a plate of cookies under a box held up by a stick and the box was labeled “RHG Trap” and how could I not?Ĭhristiana is married to Dicky, Earl of Radnor, and it is not a good marriage.
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