“Mrs Martin’s Incomparable Adventure” by Courtney Milan

It’s been more than a minute since I’ve read anything by Courtney Milan; it’s not that I don’t have several of her books in ye old TBR, but that I save her stuff for cases of emergency, and then they get buried. But here’s Miz Wendy’s TBR Challenge for June, and then there’s ::gestures at the world:: so here goes Pride, and fuck the fuckers. (I mean, just look at the author’s note in the blurb) Beware: grief over the loss of loved ones; depression; references to rape; probable domestic abuse as backstory; PTSD-triggered panic attack, on page; non-explicit sex on page. Oh, and I curse freely in the review itself. “Mrs Martin’s Incomparable Adventure” by Courtney Milan First things first: though this story is tagged as part of the overall Worth Saga, it can be read perfectly well as a stand alone. Our protagonists are a very wealthy elderly widow whose only family is a truly horrible man (and not just awful for the time), and a slightly-less-elderly spinster with absolutely no family or…