A Lady's Revenge
Published on 1. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
356 pages
978-1-7344397-1-7 (ISBN)
Description
Lady Lydia Sommerset is an earl’s daughter. At the ripe age of twenty-five, she still wears the lavish gowns and dances the dainty steps of the haute ton as if she were pursuing a husband; but her goals are far more personal. Instead, she pursues her tormenters: the men who bet that taking a girl’s virginity—her virginity—really can cure a brothel’s plague. She has her cousins and sister to aid her, but no one can understand what it feels like to be helpless. Pugilism, England’s manliest pastime, is her only relief. Training in secret with a female boxer keeps her sane, but when her instructor is hired away by one of the men she is seeking to destroy, she is in a bind. Her new teacher, a former prizefighter with a ready joke and a quick wit might do more than just correct her technique.
John Arthur is made of money. A street kid who dazzled with his fists, he now impresses as a miracle worker on the London Stock Exchange. But a man can’t forget a boyhood spent in the gutter. Easy-going and affable, John Arthur knows he shouldn’t tangle with bluebloods. He should be happy with a full belly and coin-filled pockets. But when he finds a woman who finds boxing as vital as he does, his life gets suddenly complicated.
Caught between revenge and finding love with a man who might truly understand her, Lady Lydia must commit to opening her heart or closing it forever.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
321 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7344397-1-7 (9781734439717)
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Edie Cay writes Regency Historical Romance about women's boxing. Her debut, A LADY'S REVENGE won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Romance, and the Golden Leaf Best First Book, and was a finalist for the HOLT Medallion. The next in her series, THE BOXER AND THE BLACKSMITH won the Hearts Through History Legends Award as an unpublished manuscript in 2019, was a Discovering Diamonds Book of the Month for May 2021, won the Best Indie Book Award for Historical Romance in 2021, and was a finalist for the Chatelaine Award. The third in this award-winning series, A LADY'S FINDER, was a finalist for a Lambda Award. The fourth, A VISCOUNT'S VENGEANCE, is long-listed for the Chatelaine award. The final installment, A LADY'S RESILIENCE, will be out in March 2024.She's contributed to anthologies such as UNLOCKED, THE GRAND MISTLETOE ASSEMBLY, and the forthcoming BENEATH A MIDWINTER MOON. Her next series, The Ladies Alpine Society will be published by Dragonblade in August 2024.She obtained dual BAs in Creative Writing and in Music, and her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Alaska Anchorage. As a speaker, she has presented at Jolabokaflod PDX, Historical Novel Society North America, Sunrise Rotary, Regency Fiction Writers, the History Quill, Chicago-North Spring Fling, Northern Hearts conference and the Historical Romance Retreat. She is a member of ALLi, The Regency Fiction Writers, the Historical Novel Society, and a founding member of Paper Lantern Writers.