Lady Ambition's Dilemma | 
This is third in the Lady Helena Investigates series. Lots of family drama in this installment with Helena trying to help her nephew out of a scandalous situation as well as a potential death sentence for murder. Helena also is surprised by a visit from her first love‘s brother while she is wondering about her tenuous future relationship with Armand Fortier who has his own obstacles to overcome. I had a couple of issues with this book. First, 🔻
Third book in the series. Lady Helena is getting ready to come out of mourning, much happens to distract her: her nephew getting into trouble, her older sister being demanding, the death of her friend's father, the visit of a cousin, and much more.
It sounds like a lot, but most characters are familiar from previous books, as are some of the threads.
Now I must wait years for the next book.
You‘ve been gallivanting around, mixing yourself up with suicides and pox-ridden servants and adulterers and that French physician who turns out to be a duke. Your remarks about my dear boy show that this irregular life of yours is coarsening your fibers.
To make up for bizarre cover I just shared, here is the cover of a new book I absolutely love.
The covers in this series are all distinct, yet also clearly part of a series: black silhouette in front a washed out silhouette of a building, with a single color wash for everything & a floral border.
& I believe these are self-published, so she has made an effort.
I think it's lovely & eye-catching.
Artist: Rachel Lawston
irritating and contradictory to the rest of her character, and while, yes, it does provide some conflicts to resolve and hurdles to overcome, it just seems too much. However, the ending left some cliffhanger moments that I‘m sure will provide some future drama to Helena‘s life, so I plan be along to see where that drama takes her. 4/5 ⭐️ (edited) 8mo