Some Brief Folly
"When I meet the man who will claim my heart, I think I shall know him at once."Synopsis:
Alternate Synopsis:
When I meet the man who will claim my heart, I think I shall know him at once.
The called her "The Unattainable." A regal beauty who had besotted half of London's eligible gentlemen with love. And though Miss Euphemia (Mia) Buchanan like them all, love was simply not in the picture.
But the accident was to change all that. The accident that had almost killed her and her brother. Suddenly, Mia found herself convalescing at Dominer - the ancestral home of the infamous Garret Hawkhurst, who, rumor had it, had murdered his wife and son - and for whom Mia had developed a dangerous tenderness.
Main Characters:
Euphemia Buchanan
Garrett Hawkhurst
Stephanie Hawkhurst
Simon Buchanan
Dora Graham
Kent
Coleridge Bryce
Carlotta Bryce
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Quotes:
"Hawkhurst! Are you run mad? And the girl in her nightrail!"
"No, is she?" He turned his quizzing glass interestedly upon Euphemia as if seeing her for the first time.
Title Significance:
"Mingle some brief folly
with your wisdom. To
forget it in due place is
sweet." Horace
Trivia:
- The home of Garret Hawkhurst in this novel is Dominer, the home of the Duke of Marbury (and eventually Kit Aynsworth) from The Golden Chronicles and Mistress of Willowvale.
Links:
- Tonia Izu's Some Brief Folly page.