RomanceCraft

He is London’s most notorious rake, a man who views debutantes as diversions and scandals as sport. Lord Alexander Blackwood, the Earl of Ashworth, lives for pleasure and acknowledges no rules. But when a reckless wager goes too far, he finds himself bound by honor to the one woman in society who views him with icy contempt. She is the ton’s most proper wallflower, Miss Eleanor Swift, who guards a secret vulnerability beneath her pristine demeanor. Forced into a sham betrothal to save her family from ruin, Eleanor must endure the company of the very man whose reputation she despises. Now, they must convince a watchful, gossiping world of their passionate devotion, all while resisting the very real desire that sparks between them. In a glittering world where reputation is everything, their false engagement threatens to become a perilously real affair. Can a scoundrel who never believed in love reform for the one woman who dared to see the man behind the scandal? Or will the secrets they both hide destroy any chance at a true and lasting happiness?