Emma M. Lion returns with gusto in volume 2 by Beth Brower. Do you like underdog stories? Emma may be in a precarious predicament but she’s not one to throw in the towel! 

Advice from Emma’s father, “You must be fighting fit, Emma, whatever else. Most of life is the ability to be ready for what comes your way.”

Young Hawkes (the unlikely vicar) informs Emma that her cousin has been confessing his sins and a much longer list of her sins while showing the scar from the teapot Emma tossed at him long ago following much provocation. 

The Tenant aka Niall Pierce attempts to solve the mouse problem with a cat. He and Emma communicate by sending messages through a hole in the wall that divides the garret, like the following:

I REPORT THAT TYBALT HAS TAKEN A MOUSE.

Your news proves to be the chief triumph of my day.

WITH NO WISH TO CAST ASPERSIONS, I WONDER HOW THAT COULD BE THE TRIUMPH OF AN ENTIRE DAY?

Tea with my Aunt, the Lady Eugenia Spencer, in which I was instructed how to behave in public: namely, like an unobtrusive but on the window.

I RETRACT MY PREVIOUS QUESTION.

Cousin Arabella bravely declares that, “Emma can’t live with Maxwell’s ghost forever…As painful as it is, however desperately we miss him, Maxwell has been dead for three years…Allow him to go.”

  Mary, Emma’s friend and fellow survivor  from Fortitude enlists Emma’s help in solving a problem involving retrieving a confiscated  copy of Jane Eyre and Jack (Mary’s rented cousin).

In the midst of Emma’s comings and goings she intersects with the Duke of Islington’s diary which she was unable to resist reading from cover to cover before returning it!

We love Emma and her ability to move forward in spite of the trials her cousin places upon her. Won’t you join the journey? Blessings!