Her Wicked Marquess (Sinful Wallflowers, #2)

by Stacy Reid

Miss Maryann Fitzwilliam is too witty and bookish for her own good. No gentleman of the ton will marry her, so her parents arrange for her to wed a man old enough to be her father. But Maryann is ready to use those wits to turn herself into a sinful wallflower.

When the scandal sheet reports a sighting of Nicolas St. Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury, climbing out the chamber windows of a house party, Maryann does the unthinkable. She anonymously claims that the bedchamber belonged to none other than Miss Fitzwilliam, tarnishing her own reputation―and chances of the dastardly union her family secured for her. Now she just needs to convince the marquess to keep his silence.

Turns out Nicolas allows for the scandal to perpetuate for his own reasons… But when Maryann’s parents hold fast to their arranged marriage plan, it’ll take a scandal of epic proportions for these two to get out of this together.

Each book in the Sinful Wallflowers series is STANDALONE:
* My Darling Duke
* Her Wicked Marquess

• ISBN10: 1682815196
• ISBN13: 9781682815199
• Publish Date: 1 January 2021 (first published 29 December 2020)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 5 April 2024
• Imprint: Entangled: Amara
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English
• URL: http://melia.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9781682815199

Reviews

[Lindsey Gray]

4.5 Stars

Maryann is out of time. Her parents have made a match with a vile man that she could never be happy with. She decides that making herself the most scandalous woman in the country will make her betrothed back out. When she picks a notorious rake, Nicholas Ives, Marquess of Rothbury, she never dreamed she would be placing herself on a collision course to a happily ever after.

I loved Maryann right from the start. While she may be considered a wallflower, she is spunky and has a zest for life. She scared what involving herself with Nicholas might mean, but she’s brave enough to fight for her right to live life on her own terms.

Nicholas is more of a mystery. When the news reaches the papers that he climbed out of Maryann’s window at a house party, he figures he might as well do it for real. His late night visits to Maryann’s room were not what I expected. While there is heat, they also get to know each other in a way neither of them had with anyone else. As the story moves along, Nicholas became the man Maryann needed because he wanted to be, not because he was forced to. As Maryann’s chosen betrothed keeps fighting for her, Nicholas fights harder.

The story leads to a climatic ending you won’t want to miss. I’m positive Reid has more in store for us as this series continues. Until then, I will read all I can of her earlier releases. I highly recommend her Forever Yours series and her Wedded by Scandal series. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

I received Her Wicked Marquess for free. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.