book reading

So remember when I was in Telluride and I found, rhapsodized on, and devoured THIS little gem? :

Okay this was not the edition I read but with cover art like this I can only say that I would have been even MORE likely to read it had THIS been what I found in the freebox.  COME ON.  

Remember how it was about a fair Cornish maiden and MYSTERIES?  Yes well I have been using the ol' library card and finding some more beauties by my dear Madeleine Brent, which is to say, an old British gent who I guess felt he had to write under a female pseudonym to be taken seriously by we serious novel-of-romance-and-suspense readers.  Please, sample the goods with me:

THIS is STORMSWIFT.  It begins in Afghanistan, where young Englishwoman JEMIMAH has been taken captive from the British holding in Kabul and forced into UNSPEAKABLE ACTS AND TORMENTS among barbarous tribesmen!  Faced with even LESS SPEAKABLE acts in the near future, she escapes with the silent Kassim, but is he just the traveling peddler he appears, or something MORE?  And you guys that is just the first twenty pages.  OH SNAP.

I'm still not finished with this one yet.  Obviously I need to finish typing this quick so I can go read to the THRILLING CONCLUSION!!  The daughter of inevitably-long-since-dead-of-cholera missionaries, young Lucy Waring has lived her whole life in China at the Mission, caring for young orphans!  But...then stuff happens!  Oh man oh man!  How will she deal with lost treasures and accidental marriages and English society and whatnot?  READ IT AND FIND OUT.  **EDIT: just finished, OMG you guys.  OMG.  The Boxer Rebellion has never been such a delightful opportunity for discovering love and happiness.

Like for reals you guys I know I say this like it's a joke, but I am being completely serious when I say that Madeleine Brent is the best thing to ever happen to me and when I run through what the library system has I'mna have to get serious on Amazon because I can no longer live in a world where there are Madeleine Brent books that I have not consumed.