Dear Ms. Pickens:
I almost didn’t read this book. It was a Regency, with a spy. The blurb used word like “sultry body” and described the hero as “sinfully sensuous.” Groan. However, the editor was Melanie Murray, and Murray was interviewed by us a few months ago so I thought I should give it a try.
Within the first chapter, I knew that this was something different. The heroine, Siena, was a street urchin who was observed to have good instincts and the ability to get out of trouble, even at the age of 12. Marquess of Lynsley trolls these streets to unearth girls such as Siena. He takes them to his school and trains them to be assassins, spies, anything that the crown needs. Many of them do not make it, but the few that do become one of Merlin’s Maidens. Women who will do anything, use anything, to get achieve their objective.
Siena has been training in the arts of seduction, society parlance, hand to hand combat and sword fighting, all to become one of those …
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