You can read the rest of this review at AudioGals. But something about him unsettles her, never more so than when he gently touches a hand to her cheek before he disappears into the night. As they converse, Sévie is sizing the man up, coming to the conclusion that he’s either mad or deadly – and is fairly sure he’s not the former. Sévie is surprised – but not frightened – at waking to find a man bearing a knife sitting on her bed she knows she is capable of defending herself, and equally calmly – and quite truthfully – says she has no idea what he’s talking about. Her reputation for getting results is not, however, the only thing about Sévie that leads Raoul Deverney to enter her bedroom late one night and to calmly demand the return of a missing girl and a missing amulet. Aged seventeen and fed up with being treated like a child, she ran off to join Military Intelligence – the Service’s less efficient cousin – where she made herself a formidable reputation as a spy and on her return home after the war, she set up as a private investigator and has earned herself a name for being every bit as tenacious, clever and frighteningly effective as she was during the war. Sévie grew up in England alongside Doyle and Maggie’s ( The Forbidden Rose) children and among various agents of the British Service.
In Beauty Like the Night, the sixth entry in Joanna Bourne’s acclaimed Spymasters series, the author turns her focus to Séverine de Cabrillac, sister of Justine (heroine of The Black Hawk) whom we first met when she was a very young child being taken away from revolutionary Paris by the man she now calls ‘Papa’, William Doyle, Viscount Markham. Their desperate search for the girl unleashes treason and murder…and offers a last chance for two strong, wounded people to find love. Severine reluctantly agrees to aid him, even though she knows the growing attraction between them makes it more than unwise. She’s the only one who can find the killer of his long-estranged wife and rescue her missing 12-year-old daughter. Raoul Deverney, an enigmatic half-Spaniard with enough secrets to earn even a spy’s respect, is at her door demanding help. Now she devotes herself to investigating crimes in London and finding justice for the wrongly accused. Severine de Cabrillac, orphan of the French Revolution and sometime British intelligence agent, has tried to leave spying behind her. This title may be downloaded from Audible.
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