Guilty Series

description at all. Lucia had envisioned a stout, middle-aged matron, but in reality, the duchess was a young and slender woman, with a warm smile and lovely violet-blue eyes behind gold-rimmed spectacles. Lucia did not see how suc

he paused. Viola watched as he crossed to the wooden quay that stood out over the millpond. Beside the quay, a rowboat bobbed in the water. “The oars are in the bottom,” he said

were taking his measure with cynical eyes, regarding him as not

against her bare breast. She untied the strip of muslin and began to unravel the plait of hair.

Fitzhugh family, and Elizabeth had helped her to choose new gowns from Mrs. Avery to take with her to L