February 15, 2016
Quinn (Lady Beresford’s Lover) opens a Regency series with this unexceptional installment. Lady Grace Carpenter doesn’t expect she’ll ever wed. With seven brothers and sisters entirely under her care and a tenuous grasp on their guardianship, even if she could find a man willing to take on her responsibilities, she would never be able to trust him. When an unexpected rain storm waylays her for a night at an inn with Lord Worthington, her expectations are overturned. What she intended to be a single night of passion, the memories of which would carry her through a life of spinsterhood, turns into a whirlwind courtship. The two lovers struggle to avoid drawing the attention of scandalmongers during the London season. Worthington has four sisters of his own to care for, heaping a pile of practical concerns atop the lovers’ very real struggle to stop making out long enough to get anything done. This light, cheery romance coasts comfortably toward its awkwardly fumbled ending. Agent: Elizabeth Pomada, Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency.