Is his anger enough to cause him to turn traitor, or is he being set up? As for Siena, all signs point to Julian as a man who could be the traitor he recently resigned his army commission in disgrace for having disobeyed a superior’s orders which would have sent his men to a certain – and useless – death. He begins his own investigation of her because he believes her to be the agent of a rival collector sent to cause distraction and dissension amongst the bidders. Julian Henning, the Earl of Kirtland, is a member of the club and the only one suspicious of Siena. The men are intrigued – especially when she removes her cloak to display her naked charms – and all repair to a house party in the country where a rare illuminated manuscript is to be sold at auction and Siena is to hold her final “interviews.” It is believed that one the club’s members is the traitor, for some missing documents were found inside the club’s copy of Paradise Lost. She is set up as the “Black Dove,” London’s newest and flashiest courtesan and invades a meeting of The Gilded Page Club to declare that one of the six members will be chosen as her new protector.
Siena is chosen to find a traitor who has been passing secrets in the pages of rare books. But a select few receive further training in espionage, assassination – and seduction. Those who do not possess the “right stuff” are trained as domestics and found positions. Merlin’s Academy for Select Young Ladies is really a school for spies whose students are street urchins taken in and raised at the school. While I have always enjoy Pickens’ writing, The Spy Wore Silk seemed oddly dispassionate. Andrea Pickens, a name well-known to Traditional Regency lovers, begins a new historical series, Merlin’s Maidens, about young women trained to be spies.
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