British widow, Mrs. Eleanora Haley (Nora), is in Rome, and she is desperate. Her widowed brother is dying, and he has a seven-year-old daughter. The daughter is in a convent, but the brother wants his sister to take care of her. However, Nora does not know the language, and the bureaucracy of Italian laws confuses Nora. Moreover, because the child's mother was a Savoy (of the ruling class in Italy at the time), dangerous politics haunted her every step.
Major Jamie Bently is barely surviving in squalor in Rome. He agrees to help Nora interpret because he has no resources left -- to keep him drunk. He feels that he is a failure in life and wants to drink himself to death. However, Nora needs his interpretive skills. Also, the bureaucratic clerks listen to him more than Nora because he's a man.
I did not enjoy this book as much as Caroline Warfield's others because the author spent too much time telling us Jamie has a deep secret. By the time I heard it, I was almost past caring. Unfortunately, she waited too long to explain; the constant referrals to it were irritating.
Dangerous Series
0.5. A Dangerous Nativity (2016)
1. Dangerous Works (2014)
2. Dangerous Weakness (2015)
** 3. Dangerous Secrets (2015)
Major Jamie Bently is barely surviving in squalor in Rome. He agrees to help Nora interpret because he has no resources left -- to keep him drunk. He feels that he is a failure in life and wants to drink himself to death. However, Nora needs his interpretive skills. Also, the bureaucratic clerks listen to him more than Nora because he's a man.
I did not enjoy this book as much as Caroline Warfield's others because the author spent too much time telling us Jamie has a deep secret. By the time I heard it, I was almost past caring. Unfortunately, she waited too long to explain; the constant referrals to it were irritating.
Dangerous Series
0.5. A Dangerous Nativity (2016)
1. Dangerous Works (2014)
2. Dangerous Weakness (2015)
** 3. Dangerous Secrets (2015)
