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His sister and friends arrange for him to travel to America with his young apprentice, in the hope that they will be safe from the legal repercussions of various inflammatory pamphlets published by the Plums.

Ash would have loved to travel as well, but he suffers greatly from both seasickness and epileptic episodes and so is forced to remain in England. She and her brother are the closest thing to family he has, especially now the man who raised him has moved abroad for the sake of his health. When her great friend and on-off lodger Ash – John Ashby – returns for the first time in four years, in search of a temporary place to stay, she enlists his help in keeping her brother from being arrested due to his support of the would-be rebels arrested around Pentrich.Īsh is happy to do whatever he can to help Verity. Verity Plum runs a bookseller’s and printer’s shop with her more radical brother, and lets out rooms to struggling authors and artists. Of course the location and setting was a great inducement for me to keep reading as well. So I was happy to see this one, set mostly in the bookselling and publishing area of Holywell Street in London, referencing the Pentrich Rising of 1817. Stevie‘s review of A Duke in Disguise (The Regency Impostors, Book 2) by Cat Sebastianīisexual Historical Romance published by Avon Impulse 09 Apr 19Īny book that references a specific, preferably lesser known, episode of civil unrest from the 18th or 19th Century is going to score points with me.