Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

But here it is: two ladies who are properly old, with bad knees and gnarly knuckles and papery skin, and who are still desirable and desiring and ready to love-and one of them was never beautiful and has a squint, for heaven's sake, and they are still romance heroines and I might cry. We also don't get enough f/f histrom, and we particularly don't get enough romances with heroines in their sixties and seventies. Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences.Ī thoroughly enjoyable light-hearted frothy romance which is also a howl of pure screaming rage.

The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him. If she makes Terrible Men angry and wins the hand of a lovely lady in the process? Those are just added bonuses.Īuthor’s Note: Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced. But she hatches another plan-to make her nephew sorry, to make Miss Violetta smile, and to have the finest adventure of all time. Martin isn’t about to start giving damns, not even for someone as intriguing as Miss Violetta. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him gone.

Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of nine and sixty, crashes into her life. Bertrice Martin-a widow, some seventy-three years young-has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan