Bombshell

## Description

After years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem.

No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. If you ask him, he’s been a saint about it, considering the way she looks at him…and the way she talks to him…and the way she’d felt in his arms during their one ill-advised kiss.

Except someone has to keep Sesily from tumbling into trouble during her dangerous late-night escapades, and maybe close proximity is exactly what Caleb needs to get this infuriating, outrageous woman out of his system. But now Caleb is the one in trouble, because he’s fast realizing that Sesily isn’t for forgetting…she’s forever. And forever isn’t something he can risk.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Lady Sesily Talbot
* Caleb Calhoun

### Additional Characters

* The Duchess of Trevescan, the leader of the Hell's Belles
* Adelaide Frampton, a member of Hell's Belles and accomplished thief
* Lady Imogen Loveless, a member of Hell's Belles and explosives expert
* Earl of Totting, a peer targeted by the Hell's Belles
* Lady Beaufetheringstone and her grandaughters - guests at the Duchess's autumn ball
* Viscount Coleford, a peer targeted by the Hell's Belles and suspected of murdering his first two wives
* Catherine, Viscountess Coleford, his exceedingly young third wife
* Duncan West and Georgiana Pearson - guests at the Duchess's autumn ball
* Matilda Fenwick, a woman who sought the Hell's Belles help
* Geoffrey, barman at The Place
* Maggie O’Tiernan, owner and proprietress of The Place
* Thomas Peck, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector
* Mirtha Singh, female brewer
* Lady Eleanor (Nora) Madewell, a friend of Sesily
* Nik, a Norwegian woman who works for The Bareknuckle Bastards and is Nora’s partner
* The Bully Boys, a group of men hired for destruction. Johnny Crouch is one of them
* Seraphina Bevingstoke, Duchess of Haven, Sesily’s older sister and Caleb’s partner and co-owner of The Singing Sparrow
* Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, Seraphina’s husband
* Fetu Mamoe, Samoan second-in-command at The Singing Sparrow
* Duke of Clayborn, a guest at Viscount Coleford’s dinner party
* Sophie Kingscote, Marchioness of Eversley, Sesily’s sister and her husband King, Marquess of Eversley and their children, Lorna and Emma

## Dates

* Prologue: October 1836
* October 1838

## Locations

### London, England

* Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
* Trevescan House
* The Place
* Number Two, Wesley Street
* The Singing Sparrow
* Coleford House
* Highley Manor

## Romance

Sesily and Caleb met two years prior in The Day of the Duchess. The prologue takes place shortly after he rejected her and left for Boston, Massachusetts. They are seen briefly together in Brazen and the Beast but Caleb has spent most of his time in America. Sesily thinks he is the only man who has resisted her but she doesn't know how much Caleb can't stop thinking about her.

### Love Scenes

* 7%: Sesily kisses Caleb outside the labryinth at Trevescan House in order to hide her appearance.

*"I swore I'd never do this," she said, her fingers clenching in his hair, tugging his face down toward her.*

* 43%: Caleb finds Sesily searching the Viscount's study at Coleford House and they have to hide in a servant's cupboard to avoid being caught. The close proximity and the darkness leads them to a passionate kiss. The kiss evolves and he fondles her breasts with his hands and mouth before fingering her to orgasm. He then drops to his knees and pleasures her with his mouth. They are interrupted by the Duchess knocking on the cupboard door and finding them.

*"Talk of punishment," he whispered. "If I'm only ever going to have this-a handful of stolen minutes... a smattering of kisses ... a cupboard-full of pleasure-it seems special torture that I cannot see it."*