Lord Despair, Sydney Jane Baily
Lord Despair, Sydney Jane Baily
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Lord Despair

Author: Sydney Jane Baily

Narrator: Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/31/2019


Synopsis

From USA Today bestselling author Sydney Jane Baily

From the lush English countryside to the glittering society of Victorian London, and the shabbier side of its gambling hells, Lord Despair thought he'd left the worst behind in the Burmese jungle. He was wrong.

Lord Simon Devere returns from the Burmese War haunted by the vivid memory of his slain cousin and powerless to know reality from dreams. Unable to sleep lest he awaken in the cell of his nightmares, he sits in the dark, incapable of believing he is truly home—and safe—in England.

Jenny Blackwood is determined not to let her mother and sisters succumb to an unkind fate. With a head for numbers, she becomes the skilled bookkeeper "Mr. Cavendish." One unexpected client is the nobleman cruelly named by gossips as Lord Despair.

With the estate's coffers mysteriously dwindling, Jenny goes where others fear to tread, into the darkened room of the unstable earl. Encouraged by her tenacity, Simon believes he can become the man he once was. However, as friendship quickly sparks into passion, they discover the greatest danger lies ahead of them, and the biggest threat to Jenny may be Lord Despair himself.

About Sydney Jane Baily

Sydney Jane Baily is a USA Today bestselling author. Sydney, who holds degrees in English literature and history, has spent her entire professional career in publishing. She has been a copy editor, cat snuggler, proofreader, production editor, mother of two, developmental editor, indexer, dog walker, and website designer, among other things literary and not. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debbie

Good book It started out strong but kind of lagged towards the end. The heroine was wonderful. I loved her pragmatism and her intelligence. The Hero was a sad man but he did love the h. I hated when he pushed her away because of his sleeping problem. He had been held in a cell with his cousin Tobias......more

Goodreads review by Maggie

Started out fine, but then I got bored.......more