Writing using a velvety contact, Margaret McPhee stirs passions with tales that harken back to a more romantic age group – while raising pulses in the here and now. McPhee is at her scandalous best in Unmasking the Duke’s Mistress, which features Arabella, a dropped woman about to don the cover up of Miss Noir at Mrs. Silver’s House of Pleasures. Arabella’s former love, Dominic Furneaux, is the last guy she hoped would enter her fresh place of make use of, however when he does, he surprises her by offering a way to avoid it – as his mistress.