Henry Truscott, hero of The Rake and Purity returns in Velvet Skin to continue his habits of indulgence and dissipation.
There are ample opportunities in eighteenth-century Devon for an imaginative aristocrat to pursue his peversions. Even so, Henry manages to find himself in trouble - like being caught pony-carting on his own land by the local vicar, for example.
But the fiendish, rapacious Lewis Stukley makes Truscott look like a monk - and Stukley has designs on Suki, Truscott's beguiling new servant-girl.
There are ample opportunities in eighteenth-century Devon for an imaginative aristocrat to pursue his peversions. Even so, Henry manages to find himself in trouble - like being caught pony-carting on his own land by the local vicar, for example.
But the fiendish, rapacious Lewis Stukley makes Truscott look like a monk - and Stukley has designs on Suki, Truscott's beguiling new servant-girl.
