A Most Unlikely Lady by Darcy McGuire is the fourth book in the series called The Queen’s Deadly Damsels. In each of the prior novels the damsels were able to solve and help the Queen. This novel focuses on Miss Ivy Cavendale, a wall flower and a woman who had been beset by troubles with her father and brother leaving her with next to nothing.
Ivy decides that she needs an occupation and becomes the headmistress of All Souls Orphanage. Ivy describes herself (as do many others as shy and retiring.) however when someone breaks into the orphanage intent on harm, Ivy rises to the occasion and is able to stop the assault. Later , she realizes that the group The Devil’s Sons were responsible. The Devil’s Sons are a ring of aristocrats and others who kidnap/steal young girls and sell them into slavery. The trafficking of young girls is something that Commissioner Edward Worthington, a dashing Duke and Scotland Yard Commissioner is focused on and he is hoping that Ivy can help him track down the person she saw.
Duchess of Dorsett, Lady Philippa Winterbourne who runs the Queen’s Deadly Damsels is not sure that this is something Ivy should do. However, she does see how Ivy and Edward can connect…
I enjoyed the novel. It started off with a bang and allowed the reader to become pulled into the mystery. I enjoyed Ivy coming into her own and liked Edward for her. A Most Unlikely Lady by Darcy McGuire is a good read.
A Most Unlikely Lady by Darcy McGuire comes out this week (June 6).
