Matters of Consequence A Drawing Room Diversion for Regency House Party Scandals and Secrets
At a Regency house party, no one is ever simply visiting.
Matters of Consequence: A Drawing Room Diversion for Regency House Party Scandals and Secrets invites readers behind the polished doors of England’s grand country estates, where every supper, stroll, card table, and candlelit corridor may conceal a secret.
Inside, you will enter the elegant and treacherous world of Regency house parties, where reputations are fragile, alliances shift without warning, and a single overheard conversation can change everything. Each scenario places you in the middle of a social dilemma shaped by scandal, courtship, rivalry, family pressure, inheritance, ambition, and the dangerous sport of being observed by people with excellent manners and terrible restraint.
Will you protect a friend from ruin, or protect yourself first? Will you expose a secret, silence a rumor, accept a proposal, refuse an alliance, or turn a scandal into your finest social performance?
Each situation poses the same irresistible question:
What would you do?
Perfect for solo reading, book clubs, dinner parties, Regency fans, historical drama lovers, and anyone who enjoys a little social warfare beneath the chandeliers.
Take your place among the guests, hear the whispers, and decide what reputation is worth.
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The Society Addendum
Bonus scenarios, printable prompts, extra questions, parlour notes, and charming little additions for readers who have finished the book and still have opinions about everyone’s behavior.
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A Czech academic carries a list of dissidents hidden inside a book of poetry. It may save lives. It may expose everyone involved. In 1978 Prague, an embassy officer must decide how not to risk turning a literary evening into an international incident.
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