"Lord Perfect" [.]

[fiefoe]

I always feel that to call an author a favorite puts unreasonable pressure on her, so I can't do this to Loretta Chase.

The meet-cute start among Eyptian artifacts is rather garden variety, but things picked up significantly when the not-yet-couple went on an urgent chase after her treasuring-hunting daughter and his well-meaning nephew. Helpful parents is always a bonus too.

Didn't know that 'to boil one's head' was actually done (to allow a head on a pike last longer). Ditto for 'to read the riot act', which reads:
    Our Sovereign Lord the King [or Queen] chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King [or Queen].

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Proof positive that making up stuff is hard:
'frine' for fruit + wine, 'celestial actuary'

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