This is not that book and Charlotte Highwood is not that heroine. You know how sometimes heroines who are meant to amuse come across as silly? I’ve read books like that. I think I laughed pretty solidly through the first 5% of this book. Reading Tessa Dare’s Do You Want to Start a Scandal reminded me that as much as I love to have my angst level cranked up to heart-wrenching heights, I love a good laugh too. Will she risk all to prove her innocence? Or surrender it to a man who’s sworn to never love? The only thing he guards more fiercely than Charlotte’s safety is the truth about his dark past. and melt a woman’s knees with a single kiss. The oh-so-proper marquess can pick locks, land punches, tease with sly wit. When it comes to emotion, the man hasn’t got a clue.īut as they set about finding the mystery lovers, Piers reveals a few secrets of his own. Unless she can discover the lovers’ true identity, she’ll be forced to marry Piers Brandon, Lord Granville-the coldest, most arrogantly handsome gentleman she’s ever had the misfortune to embrace. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the butler did it.Īll Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it wasn’t her. On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library.
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