Part of Ladies Most Scandalous
First published 2021
Caroline Hardcastle has a byline on England's most notorious crime column and zero interest in trading it for a wedding ring. The column cost her one engagement already. She has no regrets. Then a close friend is kidnapped, and the investigation lands her directly beside Lord Valentine Thorn, the man who broke her heart years ago. Val is now Viscount Wrackham, and his father wants him married to someone respectable. Caro does not qualify. Working together stirs up everything both of them had tried to leave alone. The deeper they push into the case, the more Caro's reporting threatens her father's business. A marriage of convenience gets floated as the cleanest solution to the damage. Caro is not convinced. Val made choices before that he blamed on family duty, and she has not forgotten them. He believes he is a changed man and wants room to prove it. The kidnapping keeps pulling them toward real danger. Trust between them is still broken. The question is whether they can fix it before the situation turns fatal.
Genres: romance, mystery, adult, historical-romance, romantic-suspense
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intricate, romantic-tension, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, marriage-of-convenience, second-chance-romance
Setting: England
Period: 19th-century
352 pages · Paperback · Forever
Content warnings: kidnapping
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