Emmeline

A Regency-set prequel novella to the Blue Orchid Society series. Arthur Bremerton, Lord Mather, is blocked on his way to Parliament by a group protesting for women's rights and is startled to find his own cousin among them alongside a beautiful suffragette, Emmeline, who engages him in a fierce battle of words and wills. Emmeline's most pressing concern is how she and her eccentric mother can begin again after the family's fortune was squandered following her father's death. After their heated disagreement, both are guests at the same three-week house party, and fate keeps throwing them together. The novella tells the story of Mimi, who becomes grandmother to Sophronia in the first full book of the series.