title: That Scoundrel Emile Dubois
author: Elliot, Lucinda
description: Sophie de Courcy, the often foolishly romantic companion to the Dowager Countess of Rhuddlan, dreams of excitement. When she marries her long-time hero, the roguish French émigré Émile Dubois, she has more adventure than she wishes as she is catapulted into Gothic happenings, with man vampires and time travel. 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 inhuman neighbours the Kenrick’s. Set in North Wales and Revolutionary France, this story combines humour, believable characters and over-the-top Gothic adventure as a pair of down to earth eighteenth century villains become incongruously caught up in occult menace. This darkly comic tale will captivate readers who enjoy a well written spoof of the Gothic tradition.