Lady Avely's Guide to Lies and Charms

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A lady shouldn't be seen to incite a duel... but Judith wasn't even there when it happened. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lady Avely doesn't know what infuriates her more: that someone used her image to provoke the Duke of Sargen into killing a man or that the duke actually believed it was </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>her</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> trysting in the maze that night.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now she and the duke must concoct their own subterfuge to shake out the culprit. Otherwise Dacian might be arrested for murder or worse the shadowy guardians of the Musing might inflict their own cruel punishment for the misuse of his Gift. Judith will need her most respectable mobcap and unfortunately the duke will need a false moustache. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With Judith's ability to detect lies and Dacian's now carefully contained power they set out to uncover the truth - but their own hearts make them easy to manipulate. Facing a master of deception as well as the duke's renewed determination to win her Judith will need a stiff drink of chocolate and the help of her cheerful tiny vampiri companion before she can find her way out of the deadly tangle...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can Judith and Dacian unmask the killer before more blood is shed? And how many different ways can one disguise a duke? </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Matronly Misadventures feature a mid-life heroine in a slow-burn second-chance romance (with a duke who has waited long enough) set in a magical version of Regency England.</span></p>