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Reviewed by Juli Williamson for Readers' Favorite
"Scandal in the Night" by Elizabeth Essex is a piece that gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a Scottish lass Catriona and the second son of a British noble, Thomas Jellicoe, and the life that might have been enjoyed if one was a spy in India when the sun never set on the British Empire and the other had secrets of her own. It is a romance that skillfully skips from the characters’ past and weaves the excitement into their present. It is a tale that encourages the characters to remain true to themselves while exhibiting understanding, acceptance and acknowledgment of those differences to each other as each is pretending to be someone else.
An Sikh horse trader and a prim governess are thrown together, strike sparks off each other. The lives that they each create lead to chaos in the inner circle of the English settlement and ruling class. A great romance that has Cat and Thomas getting to know each other in adverse conditions yet falling for each other in spite of the problems that it might cause. Poetically written with lyrical prose that has a great flow, "Scandal in the Night" is a joy to read, full of romance and a strong sexual tension that builds over time and remains through adversity to build to a future in a distant land that is as unexpected as it is welcome.
