Sinfully Wanton (THE FIVE DEADLY SINS #5) by Kathleen Ayers EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kathleen Ayers
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Lady Aurora Sinclair stared out at the wide sweep of lawn before her,
populated by some of London’s most attractive gentlemen all hovering
about the early blooming primroses. She took a sip of her tepid lemonade,
searching for a place to discreetly dispose of it. Like most of her family,
Aurora had a taste for Irish whiskey and didn’t care for lemonade, though
she did like gardens.
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She’d had a garden. No roses, of course. Mostly cabbage.
Glancing about, Aurora was unsurprised to see she was once more alone
and unchaperoned. Not unusual. Her chaperone, Miss Charlotte Maplehurst,
wasn’t terribly good at her job. Aurora covered her mouth with one gloved
hand, trying to stifle a bored yawn.
Is this it, then?
When first arriving in London shortly after her brother, Jordan, became
Earl of Emerson, Aurora had been thrilled. Overcome. Nearly giddy with
excitement after spending a decade in banishment at the broken-down estate
that was Dunnings. Emerson House boasted a full larder, something Aurora
hadn’t seen in years. Upon her arrival, Aurora was measured for and
received an entire new wardrobe. Finally, she was in the possession of
dresses that hadn’t been patched so often they looked like a quilt. Gloves.
Bonnets. Slippers. Fans. Oh, and books. Dozens and dozens. Aurora was
allowed to buy as many tomes as she liked from Tate’s, the bookseller she
favored.
Tamsin, overprotective older sister, had determined Aurora must have a
proper debut. Live the life as an earl’s daughter, the one denied her for so
long. Dancing, deportment, lessons in French—which Aurora still did not
speak passably well—history, riding, lessons on the piano.
Oh, she was terrible at the piano. A tragedy, really, since young ladies
were often measured by such a talent.
Each lesson received was guaranteed to mold Aurora into the very
epitome of English womanhood. It was the culmination of her every girlish
dream, especially since cost was no longer an issue. The Sinclair family was
no longer impoverished.
Dunnings, that terrible barren place where she and her siblings had been
banished by their older half-brother, Bentley—now thankfully deceased—
was a place one survived. The crumbling estate was more punishment than
home. Bentley had wanted the reminder of Father’s second family far from
London and reduced to living on his nonexistent charity. When Mama fell
ill, Bentley hadn’t even sent them enough coin to find her a proper
physician. She’d died at Dunnings: Aurora’s lovely, scandalous mother,
never once saying a bad word toward Bentley.
A true villain to the story of the Sinclairs, Bentley had been abetted in
his actions by his horrid maternal aunt, Lady Longwood. What a terrible
human being her half-brother had been.
Aurora didn’t miss him in the least.
She hoped Bentley spun about in his grave knowing that while he’d left
the earldom mired in bankruptcy due to his poor management and lavish
spending, his hated half-siblings were now obscenely wealthy. Coal had
been found at Dunnings. Not just enough to light a warm fire if the night
grew chilled, mind you, but buckets of coal. Dunnings was now considered
one of the largest coal deposits in all of England. Ironic, given the Sinclairs
had struggled for years to make the ground at Dunnings produce something
other than cabbage.
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