Phineas Cross, Viscount Pemberton, has a list of worries that includes getting his four sisters married, keeping his mother from meddling in every aspect of his life, and winning the attention of the mistress he’s desired for months. When that potential mistress sets him the challenge of gifting her with a nude portrait, there’s only one person he can think to ask. Lady Portia Hastings is lovely and proper, and he feels like a cad asking her to do anything even slightly scandalous, but when she makes a scandalous request in return—that he give her lessons in seduction—he finds the prim widow impossible to resist.
Fueled by Pacific Northwest coffee and inspired by multiple viewings of every British costume drama she can get her hands on, USA Today bestselling author Christy Carlyle writes sensual historical romance set in the Victorian era. She loves heroes who struggle against all odds and heroines who are ahead of their time. A former teacher with a degree in history, she finds there's nothing better than being able to combine her love of the past with a die-hard belief in happy endings.
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