Used by Her Officers
(2026)(The third book in the Mrs. Wickham's Upstanding Officers series)
A novel by Elizabeth Roubaix
Brighton society believes Mrs. Wickham has come to take the waters. Her officers know she can take far more.
The Old Ship Hotel is proving entirely too reputable. Brighton, happily, is not.
The terms were her own: beg once on the road, and her officers would have her however and wherever they liked. To the surprise of no one, she begged.
So Major Carter, Captain Denny, and Captain Chamberlayne draw up an improving itinerary. They begin in the restricted section of the lending library, where she is opened like a book. At dawn, in a bathing machine backed into the surf, they put her head out through the curtain, and an officer she cannot see has her. Then another. Then the third. By evening Lydia is sitting very still in a dark theater box, under a stranger's opera glasses, sinking down on precisely what she asked for.
A gentleman across the way would like a turn. He will not be getting one. Her officers share her with each other; they do not share her with Brighton.
Lydia has never been the only woman in a room. Brighton has a great many rooms, and she intends to be used in every last one.
Used by Her Officers is Book 3 in the Mrs. Wickham's Upstanding Officers series — a spicy Pride & Prejudice MMFM why choose reimagining where Lydia finally gets the justice — and attention — she deserves.
The Old Ship Hotel is proving entirely too reputable. Brighton, happily, is not.
The terms were her own: beg once on the road, and her officers would have her however and wherever they liked. To the surprise of no one, she begged.
So Major Carter, Captain Denny, and Captain Chamberlayne draw up an improving itinerary. They begin in the restricted section of the lending library, where she is opened like a book. At dawn, in a bathing machine backed into the surf, they put her head out through the curtain, and an officer she cannot see has her. Then another. Then the third. By evening Lydia is sitting very still in a dark theater box, under a stranger's opera glasses, sinking down on precisely what she asked for.
A gentleman across the way would like a turn. He will not be getting one. Her officers share her with each other; they do not share her with Brighton.
Lydia has never been the only woman in a room. Brighton has a great many rooms, and she intends to be used in every last one.
Used by Her Officers is Book 3 in the Mrs. Wickham's Upstanding Officers series — a spicy Pride & Prejudice MMFM why choose reimagining where Lydia finally gets the justice — and attention — she deserves.