Courtney Milan slowly teases out Minnie’s past, her need for the protection of a marriage, any marriage, and her fear of crowds and being seen.
Captain Stevens, the head of the militia, is concerned about leaflets that appear on the streets urging workers to organize he has reason to believe that Minnie is not who she says she is and that she is involved in stirring up trouble amongst workers. The romance between Robert and Minnie unfolds against the backdrop of the workers’ rights movement and the threat it poses to local authority.
And both of them clearly have secrets, otherwise why would they each be hiding in the library? Minnie is not a conventional beauty but there is something about her that Robert finds fascinating. While hiding in the library at a local assembly, he espies Wilhelmina “Minnie” Pursling, a young woman also hiding in the library from her fiancé. Yet it has drawn in Robert Blaisdell, the young and handsome Ninth Duke of Clermont, who happens to be a powerful Lord in Parliament as well as a factory owner. The action for this novel takes place in Leicester, an industrial town that would generally not attract the attention of London society. I am officially hooked on Milan and The Brothers Sinister series. As with The Governess Affair, author Courtney Milan does a wonderful job of putting the reader in a specific historical period and includes fascinating information about the social and economic situation of the time, in this case, 1863 industrial England. This novel picks up almost 30 years after the events of the novella and focuses on the next generation of characters. The Duchess War, while listed as Book 1 in a series, is actually a sequel to the novella The Governess Affair.
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