Sample Saturday: "Clytie's Caller"
Here's your first peek into my Regency novella work-in-progress. Enjoy!
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"It was at Allmack’s. I stepped out to get a breath of fresh air after dancing the ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ …” she paused. “It was almost like what happened to Georgiana Darcy. And then, I started seeing him everywhere … and …”
Her voice broke.
“I must ask you to leave now, Samuel.”
“As you wish.”
Clearly, he had pushed too hard. And who on Earth was Georgiana Darcy?
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That was the question he put to Isabel after supper that night.
“You know all of the Society girls, and I’ve never heard of her.”
“You are such a ninnyhammer, Sam.” Isabel pulled two volumes from a nearby bookcase and dropped them into his lap. “Georgiana Darcy is a character in ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Sam. She’s not a real girl.”
