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Length of Novel:
108,475 words
Keywords and Market Focus:
Fiction, detective, supernatural, fae, fairy, romance, intelligence, Britain, United Kingdom, MI6, magic, New Scotland Yard, goddess, Dagda, organization, the Crown; will fascinate anyone interested in mystery, detectives, and the fae—will appeal particularly to those who enjoy mystery and suspense novels.
Blue Rose: Enchantment and the Detective is a novel along the lines of Sherlock Holmes, except it’s about a woman, and her Watson is a smart young Wing Commander.
Genre:
Mystery Fantasy
Synopsis:
The Lady Azure Rose
Wishart, in the sixth form, the head girl at Wycombe Abbey, and a capable
detective. She is also the top
girl, a scratch golfer, and lives with a couple of dubious acquaintances—one
is most likely a vampire and the other a werecreature.
Well, most likely. In any
case, the Lady Azure Rose Wishart lost her estate but not her title.
Because of that, she could be on the parishes’ charity list except
she has a scholarship to Wycombe and the Crown pays for her other work.
The Lady Wishart is driven to reacquire her estate and make her way
in the world. She wants to be a
supernatural detective.
We first meet her as she
untangles a mystery for the New Scotland Yard.
Unfortunately, this isn’t a true supernatural crime, but Azure (the
Lady Wishart) solves it in no time, and she is now on New Scotland Yard’s
payroll. Another few thousand
mysteries, and she might buy back her estate.
That’s her first problem, she doesn’t make enough to ensure she can
ever win back her hereditary holdings.
The second problem is just about to hit her squarely between the
eyes—Lachlann Calloway meets her at a party.
It was truly an accident
of occasion and invitation that brought Lady Azure Rose Wishart into the
sights of the dashing Wing Commander Lachlann Calloway, but so is life.
He immediately fell in love with the ravishing and dangerous Azure.
However, Azure doesn’t have time for a lover or a boyfriend.
She, of course does everything in her power to discourage him.
During their next meeting, she thoroughly embarrasses and chastises
him. On their first date, he
privately blows her cover and propriety.
What Lachlann discovers is that his mother, a high level manager in
her majesty’s intelligence operations, has black listed Azure from any
intelligence work. This is
curious, but he’s still in love.
Instead of being
discouraged, as Azure would have liked, Lachlann gloms on to her like a
social leech. She isn’t used to
these types of entanglements. In
any case, Lachlann is trying his hardest to entice Azure to love.
She is trying her hardest to be rid of the puppy, Lachlann Calloway.
Lachlann’s mother wants nothing more than for Lachlann to dump the
unwilling Azure. Meanwhile,
Azure, through New Scotland Yard, has uncovered a truly supernatural
mystery.
Author's reviewer’s quotes:
The Lady Azure Rose
Wishart plays golf, reluctantly finds love, adjudicates the Fae, fights with
the Queen, and solves supernatural mysteries—what’s not to like?
Azure was called “despicable” by her boyfriend’s
mother, Mrs. Calloway—it doesn’t help that Mrs. Calloway is the head of
supernatural intelligence for Britain and has the ear of the Queen.
Short descriptive teasers:
The Lady Azure Rose
Wishart applies to New Scotland Yard as a supernatural detective—she has to
explain exactly what a supernatural detective can do, but that’s just part
of the details.
The Lady Azure Rose
Wishart finds her match in the puppy love of Lachlann Calloway—she doesn’t
need any kind of love especially from a boyfriend, but now she’s stuck with
one.
