The Lady's Guide to Scandal: a 'fake engagement' historical romance

Name: The Lady's Guide to Scandal: a 'fake engagement' historical romance
Rating: 4.527777671813965 (72 reviews)

Emmanuelle de Maupassant

Jul 2021 · The Lady's Guide Book 4 · Dark Castle Press

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A fake engagement with a notorious rogue?

How desperate does a woman have to be?

Taking him into her bed certainly isn't part of the plan.

But this rogue is simply too irresistible, and Cornelia's name is already mired in scandal.

What does she have to lose...?

Celebrated explorer Ethan Burnell has all the ladies swooning, but he's exactly the sort of 'dangerous man' Cornelia has sworn off.

When Burnell's sister throws a Christmas house-party, intent on fixing him up with a bride, he sees only one way out.

A fake engagement for the duration of the festivities!

Cornelia knows she's crazy to agree to the plan, but has faith Ethan's "adoration" will bring other suitors running.

Can she put up with his cocky ways (without wringing his neck?)

The game is on!

What to expect: A bluestocking heroine who meets her match, a fake engagement, and a Christmas party that changes everything.

Looking for historical romance filled with passion, adventure, comedy and intrigue?

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'The Lady's Guide to Mistletoe and Mayhem' (a 'heroine in disguise' Christmas romantic comedy)

'The Lady's Guide to a Highlander's Heart' (an 'enemies to lovers' medieval Scottish romance)

'The Lady's Guide to Scandal'. (a 'fake engagement' Christmas romance)

'The Lady's Guide to Deception and Desire' (a 'disinherited heiress' romance)

'The Lady's Guide to Tempting a Transylvanian Count' (a 'second chance' gothic romance)

'The Lady's Guide to Well-Endowed Dukes' (a 'virgin duke meets wily heroine' romantic comedy)

Each historical romance can be enjoyed as a 'standalone' story.

'The Lady's Guide' steamy historical romance series features stories with the following tropes and themes:

Fake Engagement

Second chance romance

Opposites Attract

Enemies to Lovers

Marriage of Convenience

Matchmaking

Forced Proximity

Desert island

Snowed in

Heiress heroine

Runaway Bride

Bluestocking heroine

Heroine in disguise

Archaeologist hero

Unexpected heir

Warrior hero

Ratings and reviews

4.5

72 reviews

Andrea Romance

July 14, 2021

Widow Cornelia isn't looking for another husband. One was more than enough. She's happy spending her days at the museum, working with antiquities. Adventurer Ethan isn't looking for a wife. He's too busy discovering Mexico's hidden treasures. To thwart the matrimonial machinations of his duchess sister while he's in London for an exhibition, he asks Cornelia to fake an engagement. Will the ruse become real? While this book is set in 1903, it made the Regency lover in me happy. The characters are strong and the subject matter a refreshing change. If you like the fake engagement trope, this book is a good choice. Thanks, Booksprout, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Emma Davis

July 16, 2021

Differences can be overcome with Love and Determination - Cornelia is a woman whose life is surrounded by scandal not of her own making. Her mother and deceased husband were responsible for that. Yet society looked down on her as if she were culpable. Working at the museum cleaning fragments of ancient items, labeling them, made her think of faraway places exploring and discovering new historical items and cultures of the past. As a woman this would never be. While secrectly entering a new exhibit at the museum she accidentally met the honored guest of the museum highly acclaimed explorer and archeologist Ethan Burnell. Cornelia lived with her two spinster aunts and they remembered Ethan from when he was a boy playing on the beach with Cornelia. Ethan remembered and invited them to his sister's home for the Christmas holidays. Ethan recommended that Cornelia be his fake girlfriend. This way he could ward off the single young women his sister invited to entice him to marry. But somewhere over the house party feelings were developing between Ethan and Cornelia. Ethan had suffered under his father and had decided long ago never to marry and never to have children. Of course, this was the opposite of what Cornelia wanted. They were at an impasse. A very good story. I just felt there was a thread that was not tied up. Ethan's brother-in-law agreed to explore the underground of the abbey after the first of the year. I never found out what the result of that was. Otherwise, I would have rated this a five. I received an Advanced Readers Copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. Reasons I enjoyed this book: Happily Ever After Page-turner Unpredictable Wonderful characters

Ramona Harris

June 29, 2021

Ethan Burnell discovered Palekmul and brought the artifacts to the British Museum in London. Cornelia Mort-main volunteered at the Museum and decided to see if she could sneak in and see the Palekmul exhibit room. When she got there a door was unlocked and she snuck in and thought she saw the trying to steal something. She took a piece of wood out of her pocket help her think she had a gun and for him to lay down on the floor then she went to the time of and he got hold of her and got her on the floor and she discovered it was Ethan Burnell. Ms. De Maupassant has written an excellent book which is easy to read and is quite enjoyable... I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

About the author

Emmanuelle lives with her husband in the Highlands of Scotland, and has a penchant for hairy pudding terriers (connoisseurs of squeaky toys and bacon treats).

Her new pup, Archie, has arrived to join the fun.

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www.emmanuelledemaupassant.com

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