That Scoundrel Émile Dubois
by Lucinda Elliot
When Sophie de Courcy, the often foolishly romantic and bored but patient companion to the Dowager Countess of Ruthin, marries her long-time hero, the dashing but rascally French émigré Émile Dubois, she has more excitement than she ever wanted as she is catapulted into Gothic adventure with man vampires and time warps.
With the help of her dauntless maid Agnes – who combines Tarot reading with a no-nonsense attitude – and whose own love interest is Émile’s swaggering valet and former accomplice, Georges – Sophie must come to terms with Émile’s criminal past and help free him from the machinations of their evil neighbours the Kenrick’s.
Set during the French Revolution in North Wales and in war torn France, this story is full of lively humour and combines believable characters and over-the-top Gothic adventure as a pair of down to earth eighteenth century villains become incongruously caught up in occult happenings. This darkly funny, sometimes sad and often romantic tale will captivate readers who enjoy well written steampunk and who love novels in the Gothic tradition.
Lucinda Elliot was born in England and loves writing Gothic stories – as she grew up living in a series of isolated old houses, in Buckinghamshire, Devonshire and North Wales amongst other places that would make perfect settings for such stories, that may not be surprising.
After that she lived and worked in London for many years, and now lives in mid Wales with her family, and has greatly improved her Welsh, but there is a long way to go…
She loves working out and weight training, and was once a Sportsfighter (long since retired). She likes body sculpting, too. She shows a geeky streak in her interests such as classic novels, history and conservation.
She loves creating strong female characters to provide an effective counterpoint to the gung-ho males. She can’t resist putting humour into all of her writing, dark or otherwise. When reading ‘That Scoundrel Emile Dubois’ she hopes you will laugh out loud as well as shudder.
Authors always have worked out far more about their characters than they can possibly show in a book, even a longish one – not to mention all that clutter in their heads gleaned from historical research, etc. Her blog fills in these sorts of details about her characters.
Lucinda Elliot hopes you will visit her blog on [http://sophieandemile.wordpress.com/] if you would like to find out more about the background to this book, the characters themselves, her other writing, etc.
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