Author: Lady Alice McCloud
Publisher: Virgin Nexus
Keywords: nexus, strict, whalebone
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-02-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0352340827
ISBN-13: 9780352340825

Petticoats, corsets, frilly knickers, lace, and canes - all part of the Imperial world inhabited by a young and naïve foreign office agent sent on special missions on behalf of the empire.  In Whalebone Strict, Thrift Moncrieff’s assignment takes her to the North American colonies, where she is supposed to compromise the position of a politician.  In this she is rather more successful than she had planned, leading her deeper into difficulties that somehow always lead to the opening of her ankle length corset and elaborate underwear, either for the entertainment of a string of lecherou