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I’m so excited to be part of the Sharon Cameron’s A Spark Unseen Blog Hop. Today, on day 5, she’s sharing then and now quotes for Mary Brown. Check it out below along with the trailer!
A Spark Unseen
by Sharon Cameron
Publication Date: September 24, 2013
The thrilling sequel to Sharon Cameron’s blockbuster gothic steampunk romance, THE DARK UNWINDING, will captivate readers anew with mystery and intrigue aplenty.When Katharine Tulman wakes in the middle of the night and accidentally foils a kidnapping attempt on her uncle, she realizes Stranwyne Keep is no longer safe for Uncle Tully and his genius inventions. She flees to Paris, where she hopes to remain undetected and also find the mysterious and handsome Lane, who is suspected to be dead.
But the search for Lane is not easy, and Katharine soon finds herself embroiled in a labyrinth of political intrigue. And with unexpected enemies and allies at every turn, Katharine will have to figure out whom she can trust–if anyone–to protect her uncle from danger once and for all.
Filled with deadly twists, whispering romance, and heart-stopping suspense, this sequel to THE DARK UNWINDING whisks readers off on another thrilling adventure.
Quotes Then and Now, Mary Brown
Mary Brown THEN, The Dark Unwinding
Mary sighed in relief, then slammed the door in Lane’s face. She grabbed me by the arms and sat me hard on the bench in front of the dressing table. “Fix your hair, quick!” she whispered, “and I’ll be doing your dress.”
“Just a minute!” I called through the door. “Mary,” I said, holding my voice low, “my hair is fine, and don’t make such a fuss. He only wants…” Actually I had no idea what he wanted.
“Don’t be daft, Miss! I’ve never once been seeing Lane Moreau knock on a girl’s door, and there are plenty who wouldn’t have minded if he had, no matter what their papas had to say about Frenchman…” She paused. “Or maybe because of what their papas had to say…but anyway, if he did come knocking, they’d be brushing their hair when they was bid!” Mary’s breath whooshed from her nose and she slapped away my hand. “Stop trying to pull it all back so! What’s wrong with you, Miss!”
She pulled loose a small piece of hair, one of the wisping curls that so vexed me, and to my horror, snipped it off, cheek length, with a pair of scissors. My mouth dropped.
“Hush!” Mary ordered. She snipped five more times, and when she was done, hair lay all over the dresser, and I had a few twining curls around my face. “Now come on!” she said, and shoved me off the bench.
Mary Brown NOW, A Spark Unseen
“Lord!” Mary said, blowing through the room like a hurricane. “But if that weren’t a lesson on handling a man, then I don’t know what was!” She stripped me down and gave me a push toward the tub. “I’m thinking you did real good, Miss! Real good. Now if I was able to be going about saying all that in French, then I’d be taking a page out of your book, if you take my meaning, Miss. I’m certain it would be a favor to me…”
I held my second foot over the water. “Mary, I need to…”
“Talking a man’s head right ‘round till he don’t know where he’s at. That’s artful, that is, Miss, and I’m thinking ‘tis what a young man needs. Now take that Jean-Baptiste, Miss, he’s a real nice young man, Miss, settled you know, more mature, not so silly and boyish. Do you know what I’m talking about, Miss?” She pushed me into the water with a splash.
“Mary, I…”
“And with a real interesting name. Jean-Baptiste! It’s so foreign sounding, ain’t it, and it rolls right off the tongue. Jean-Baptiste,” she demonstrated, shoving a chunk of soap into my hands. “Jean-Baptiste. Jean Baptiste! He was staying here all night and day, Miss, and him being just as gentlemanly as you please, teaching me some real useful French, and you know what he did, Miss?”
I slid farther into the water.
“He was showing me how to pick a lock, Miss! Now that’s real interesting, and real useful…”
“Mary,” I said softly, “I am terribly glad to see you.”
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