New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwellās delicious Logical Manās Guide to Dangerous Women series continues with this provocative romance between a reprobate earl and a sensible spinster who agree to marry under scandalous circumstances. Perfect for fans of Sophie Jordan and Sabrina Jeffries.
Lesson #1: A man, even titled and handsome, cannot be careless forever.
The Earl of Marsdenābetter known as Mars to allāhas lived his life by his own rulesā¦until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny packageāa baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars wonāt let his child be cast adrift, except he doesnāt know the first thing about babies.
Panicking, he turns to a woman for help. Not just any woman, but Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Marsās greatest critic. Still, who better to tend a motherless child than a woman who was abandoned as a babe herself?
Lesson #2: Life always plays the upper handāespecially when it comes to love.
Clarissa desperately wishes to not to be beholden to anyone. She has spent a lifetime being pitied by the village. Her plan is simpleāto use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own woman. It all sounds so straightforward until the threat of scandal sends her and the one man she canāt abide toward . . . marriage?
Mars and Clarissa are about to learn the greatest lesson of allāthat sparks always fly when the iron is hot.
Wilma
18-8-2023
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