Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Author, Musician, Artist

🐎 The Taming of Lady Theadora Blunket A Mills and Swoon Romance Short by Sarnia de la Maré. Lady Theadora Blunket was widely considered a problem. Not a scandal exactly—although there had been murmurs after the incident with the racing stallion and the magistrate’s wig—but she was certainly a difficulty. At twenty-eight she possessed a respectable dowry, an alarming seat on horseback, and absolutely no interest in matrimony whatsoever. Her mother blamed the horses. Her father blamed the French. Society blamed Theadora. For while other ladies embroidered roses and fainted charmingly in drawing rooms, Lady Theadora preferred breeches, boots, and the smell of leather and tobacco. And, on certain evenings, gambling houses. It was just past midnight in the back rooms of the Golden Crown Gaming Club , where respectable gentlemen went to become slightly less respectable and lose their inheritance. A tall young “man” leaned against the far table, coat collar high, hat low, a glass...