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What's a girl to do when she has no money but must marry well?
When her father has died a debtor and her reprobate brother is intent on gambling away what little else remains?
When her feather-brained sister risks the family reputation by succumbing to any lure cast her way?
Why, her mother, Lady Brightwell, has just the plan! Her intelligent, beautiful daughter is to be sacrificed to a lecherous baron with gout and carbuncles in order to keep the family in the manner to which they've become accustomed.
Only, there's the rub.
Lady Brightwell's daughter Fanny might be intelligent and beautiful. But she's also rebellious, clever and strong-willed.
And when her passionate heart is brought to life by a chance encounter with a dashing viscount, the fact he's looking for a wealthy bride is of no account.
This is the story of Fanny's perilous gamble amidst a London season's offerings of debutantes with far greater address - but far less cunning - for the ultimate prize: dashing, delicious, dazzling Lord Fenton.
Sit back and enjoy this racy, Regency romp but do ensure your smelling salts are at hand - because Fanny Brightwell is prepared to risk everything to save herself from a lifetime attending to Great Aunt Seraphina's chilblains or massaging lecherous Lord Slyther's gargantuan ego - amongst other things.
Book 1: Rake's Honour
Book 2: Rogue's Kiss
Book 3: The Wedding Wager
Book 4: The Accidental Elopement
What readers are saying:
"Steamy and passionate... A good light-hearted read." ~ Amazon reader
"A fast-paced story, filled with humour, sexual attraction, love and desperation. The first in a series of novels set in a time when chastity and honour were everything." ~ Amazon reader.
About the author
Beverley Oakley is an Australian author of more than 30 Regency romps, and Victorian and Georgian-set romances laced with mystery and intrigue.Under her other pen names - Beverley Eikli and B.G. Nettelton - she writes Africa-set romantic suspense and Women's Fiction.Born in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Beverley married the handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta while managing a safari lodge.She began her writing career as a journalist, but it was during long aerial survey contracts around the world-typically as the sole woman among the crew-that she began writing romance novels, finding in them an escape from the isolation.Beverley also adores making historical costumes, knitting, and travelling, usually to Norway to visit her older daughter.She lives just north of Melbourne with the same wonderful husband she whisked away from Botswana thirty years ago, together with their youngest daughter, and a gorgeous, dopey Rhodesian Ridgeback who weighs more than she does.When she's not writing, she runs a bed & breakfast & Farmstay business (called Wuthering Heights) in South Australia's beautiful wine growing Clare Valley with her two sisters.You can visit her websites at: www.beverleyoakley.com or www.beverleysbooks.com
