Maureen's Reviews > Impeccable

7th in the Phoenix Club series. The h Evie Renshaw Lucien's partner of the Ladies Club and the H Lord Gregory Blakemore. They both met in Oxfordshire during the Christmas holidays. Lord Gregory had courted Fiona Countess of Overton in the first book. His father recently died and his parents wanted him to become a Bishop. Gregory and Evie met through a puppy stuck in a hedgerow. They were enchanted with one another and started a secret affair. Evie had reinvented herself with Lucien's help two years ago. She and her sister who she was visiting in Oxfordshire were both former courtesans. Lucien was Evie's last protector. He and her sister were the only one's who knew. She and her sister and husband were invited to Witney House, Lord Gregory's brother's home for a Christmas party. One of the men there recognized Evie from her former life and told Lord Gregory's brother who ended up announcing it to the newspaper to spite Gregory and Evie for not being admitted to the Phoenix Club.
Evie broke off her affair with Gregory but after a few week she relented and the affair was back on again. Gregory did ask her to marry him. She thought it through and decided to accept after he assured her she could keep her own money. Lord Witney used to help men from France Aristo's reunite with their familes and after he passed the Duke of Evesham took over. He helped unite Evie and Heloise her sister with their father.
Lucien was informed by Evie and Gregory that his father helped reunite her father with her. This made Lucien upset and suspicious of his father. He went to ask his dad for money as the club wasn't doing as well and found out his father knew all about the Foreign office running the club from behind the scenes. Lucien wanted to buy out Lady Pickering or Oliver Kent but his dad said he wouldn't be able to.
#1 Tobias Powell, the Earl of Overton and Fiona
#2 Constantine (Lucien and Cassandra's brother) and Sabrina
#3 Ruarke Earl of Wexford and Cassandra
#4 Bennet, Viscount Glastonbury and Prudence ( first cousin to Constantine, Lucien and Cassandra)
#5 Maximillian Hunt Viscount Warfield and Ada Treadway (bookeeper and Prudence and Evie's bestfriend)
#6 Dougal MacNair Viscount Fallin and Jessamine Goodfellow both spies for the Foreign Office
#7 Lord Gregory Blakemore and Evie Renshaw (Evie former mistress of Lucien's and BFF with Ada)
#8 Lord Lucien Westbrook (the spare) and Kate Shaughnessy (Ruarke's sister)