(More about the “family crisis” later, too.) She’s not enthusiastic and for good reason. Vicky’s independent spirit becomes an issue when a family crisis necessitates that she marry as soon as possible. Indeed, whenever Vicky’s life is at risk, she’s an active participant in saving herself. ” Rather than leaving all the heroics to Tom, Vicky takes off on her horse in pursuit of the villain. And just because ordinary events occur during the majority of one’s life, that doesn’t stop the unexpected from happening at a moment’s notice. (More about Tom later.) “Just because sensational events happen in novels, that doesn’t mean they cannot happen. In the first chapter, Vicky is attacked by a masked assailant who’s prevented from delivering a killing blow by Tom’s fortuitous arrival. … Did she have any idea how fanciful she sounded? How naive? How would she ever survive in the cruel world with such notions? ” As her childhood playmate Tom Sherborne observes: “She was still very much like the girl he remembered who’d believed in fairy stories, except now she believed in the novels of some Miss Austen. Set in 1817 Regency England, Dangerous Alliance has a teen-aged heroine who is a devotee of Jane Austen’s first published novels.
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