*The last woman on earth he would ever touch . . .* Declan, the Duke of Banbury, has no interest in ushering Rosalie Hughes, his stepsister, into society.Dumped on him with nowhere else to go, he's determined to rid himself of the headstrong debutante by bestowing on her an obscenely large dowry .
A Debutante's Guide to Rebellion
β Scribed by Kimmel, Kathleen
- Book ID
- 109103434
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Series
- Birch Hall 1,5
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780451487926
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A bashful botanist and a reluctant debutante are about to discover that there may be a science to seduction after all...
London, 1815: Lady Mildred Weller (Eddie to her friends) has few prospects for marriage. If she can't attract the availableβthough considerably olderβLord Averdale, she may be doomed to spinsterhood. She's even willing to enter into that loveless union, if only to escape her mother's stifling and increasingly desperate dominance. And she may have found the perfect person to help her achieve that goal.
Ezekiel Blackwood is a botanist as well as Lord Averdale's nephew and heir. He is also a social disaster. Cross-pollination he understands; the fairer sex not at all. But in Lady Eddie, he discovers a kindred spirit. When she asks for his assistance in assessing Lord Averdale's interest in her, Ezekiel is crushed. But naturally, he thinks, she could never fall in love with someone like him. Ezekiel's matchmaking cousin is...
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