The women behind the popular, scandalous periodical Mrs. Goodeās Magazine for Misses, also known as Goodeās Guide to Misconduct, are daring, witty, clever, and wise, just like their publication ā¦ especially in romance.
Serving as the advice columnist āMiss Busy B.ā for an often-subversive ladiesā magazine is the perfect outlet for Daphne Burkeās outspoken nature. But when she advises a young lady of the ton to break off her engagement to a notorious rake, the consequences take Daphne beyond the page and into her real life.
Miles, Viscount Deveraux, sometimes known as āthat devil Deveraux,ā needs a respectable bride by the end of the Season, and heās bet a fortune that he can get one. Now, his fiancĆ©e has not only changed her mindābut done it publicly, in a letter to Londonās most infamous magazine. With the stakes high and time
short, it seems reasonable to him that the columnist responsible should come to his rescue and marry him instead.
Fortunately for Miles, Daphne is eager to escape the pressures of the London marriage mart. She agrees to a courtship. But at the end of two weeks, she intends to turn him down in a big, splashy scandal that will ruin her reputation and set her free. Thereās just one shocking wrinkle: Who knew being ruined by a
rake could be so much fun?