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PERFECT FOR BRIDGERTON FANS
''No one writes Victorian Romance like Mimi Matthews, and her Belles of London series just keeps getting better!'' Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code
---A silver-haired equestrienne and a charismatic artist turn a scandalous bargain into a vibrant portrait of love.
Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist--and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother''s pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic...like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who''s ever really seen her.
Aspiring painter Edward ''Teddy'' Hayes knows true beauty when he sees it. He would never ask Stella to risk her reputation as an artist''s model, but in the five years since a virulent bout of scarlet fever left him partially paralysed, Teddy has learned to heed good fortune when he finds it. He''ll do anything to persuade his muse to pose for him, even if he must offer her a marriage of convenience.
After all, though Teddy has yearned to trace Stella''s luminous beauty on canvas since their chance meeting, her heart is what he truly aches to capture....
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About the author
USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews writes both historical nonfiction and award-winning proper Victorian romances, including Fair as a Star, a Library Journal Best Romance of 2020; Gentleman Jim, a Kirkus Best Book of 2020; and The Work of Art, winner of the 2020 HOLT Medallion.
Mimi's novels have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, and Shelf Awareness, and her articles have been featured on the Victorian Web, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and in syndication at BUST Magazine.
In her other life, Mimi is an attorney. She resides in California with her family, which includes a retired Andalusian dressage horse, a Sheltie, and two Siamese cats.
