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A Season’s worth of scandals: wagers, London widows, vindication, house-party ruin, practical marriages, and scholars who did not mean to become gossip.
6 books
A Season’s worth of scandals: wagers, London widows, vindication, house-party ruin, practical marriages, and scholars who did not mean to become gossip.
Tropes: season scandal · fake courtship · house party · widow
She calculated the odds of every game in London. She never counted on losing her heart to a scoundrel. Lady Charlotte Harbury has a secret. While other debutantes dream of waltzes, she dreams of probability equations. Desperate to test her theories, she commits the ultimate indiscretion: sneaking into a notorious gaming hell disguised as a man.Book 1
She ruined her reputation with a single leap. Now, only a fake engagement to a dangerous earl can save her family. Lady Eliza Fairchild has spent years crafting a perfect facade to hide her merchant roots. That facade shatters the night she leaps from her opera box to save a poisoned tenor—her secret half-brother.Book 2
She destroyed his reputation with a single column. Now, she is the only one who can save his life. Iris Pembroke is the most feared voice in London. Writing under the anonymous pseudonym "Your Man in Mayfair," she exposes the sins of the aristocracy. But when she accuses the grieving Viscount Wychwood of hastening his wife’s death, she makes a catastrophic error.Book 3
She hired him to teach her niece to dance. She never expected him to teach her heart to feel again. Lady Helena Harland, the composed and respected Countess of Harland, has spent years mastering the art of being unshakeable. Widowed and independent, her only goal is to secure a brilliant future for her niece.Book 4
She planned the perfect house party to save her family’s reputation. A thief planned to ruin it. Rosalind Templeton is the perfect hostess: composed, elegant, and entirely in control. Her seaside house party at Saltleigh is meant to be the triumph of the Season, complete with a matchmaking wager to entertain her high-society guests.Book 5
She ruined her reputation to save a stranger. Now she is married to a baron who believes he is too dangerous to love. Meg Linwood prefers translating Greek myths to navigating London ballrooms. She has always lived in the margins, invisible and content. But when she spots a statue toppling at a garden party and rushes to intervene, she creates the season's biggest scandal.Book 6
The Duke of Blackmoore built his reputation on icy logic and ruthless precision, a man whose voice can sway the House of Lords and halt entire reforms with a single cutting remark. Lady Beatrice Marlowe has watched him dismantle her father’s final Bill piece by piece, turning compassion into weakness and justice into folly.Related title