by Tessa Dare
First published 2015
Miss Madeline Gracechurch faces her debut London season with dread. She draws beautifully but fumbles every conversation with gentlemen. The marriage mart will destroy her. Maddie creates Captain MacKenzie, a perfect Scottish sweetheart who exists only in her imagination. She writes him passionate letters and tells everyone about their romance. When she claims he died in battle, London society leaves her alone to grieve. Years pass peacefully until the real Captain Logan MacKenzie appears at her door. He carries her letters in his coat pocket. This battle-scarred Highlander demands she honor every romantic promise she wrote to his fictional counterpart. Maddie must choose between the safety of her invented world and the dangerous reality of a flesh and blood man who knows her deepest secrets.
Genres: fiction, romance, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, second-chance
Setting: London, Scotland
Period: 19th-Century
390 pages · Kindle Edition · Avon