Shortie but a Cutie

This is a very short trip into the life of Georgie, our beloved royal, at the very beginning of the Depression and before the events of the Her Royal Spyness series. She's living in London with Binky and the venomous Fig, and her unsuccessful debutante season has come to a close. In typical manipulative fashion, HM attempts to set Georgie up with a Prussian prince by sending her off to a Halloween masked ball where she not only confronts a house-full of guests expecting her to do the done thing, but meets the sharp Mrs. Simpson for the first time. Desperate for a way to escape being conned into marriage with a European royal whispered to be mad, Georgie finds herself dancing in the strong arms of a rather dashing man in a devil's costume. A smoldering lip-lock, a bomb, and a tantalizing letter of farewell later, and we have Georgie's first encounter with the Honourable Mr. Darcy O'Mara. It's obvious from the get-go who he is to the reader, but it answers the lingering question of why Georgie never remembered having Darcy as a dancing partner in Book #1. Really, that's all this short story was meant to achieve.

Quick and cute ... Bravo!