Debutante Diaries
3 total works
Miss Sophie Kendall is passionate about plants, their properties, and the Debutante Underground. One thing she doesn't love is running into a sleep deprived earl as she's sneaking into an abandoned building for her next meeting. With her knowledge of plants, Sophie knows she can help this surly, enigmatic man but he has a proposition.
Henry Reese, the Earl of Warshire, wants to be free from his wartime nightmares. So when Sophie brews him a special tea, he thinks he's found a cure. But it soon becomes clear it's not the tea that's helped him sleep. Reese has an offer: she can use his building for her meetings, and the garden, in exchange for one week at his home to help him sleep. The rules are simple: No touching. No closeness. Only one way to fall in love.
Henry Reese, the Earl of Warshire, wants to be free from his wartime nightmares. So when Sophie brews him a special tea, he thinks he's found a cure. But it soon becomes clear it's not the tea that's helped him sleep. Reese has an offer: she can use his building for her meetings, and the garden, in exchange for one week at his home to help him sleep. The rules are simple: No touching. No closeness. Only one way to fall in love.
She needed a husband of convenience. She got her one true love instead.
Miss Fiona Hartley's huge dowry should have ensured that finding a husband would be quick. True, she's a tad older than the average debutante, and spends too much time sketching brutally honest character portraits. She desperately needs a husband so she can access her dowry, lest the man blackmailing her reveals a secret that would ruin her family. So desperate in fact, that she's willing to do the unthinkable - propose marriage to the most surly, irritable gentleman in town.
As a matter of principle, David Gray, the Earl of Somerdale, avoids two types of women: those who are obviously desperate, and those who are stark-raving mad. And it soundly appears Miss Fiona Hartley is both. Yet David can't help but be drawn to her, and gives her a test - if she can spend one week in his dilapidated estate - the same one that caused his previous fiancee to jilt him - then he'll consider her proposal. But as the week goes on, Fiona's refreshing wit find a way into his heart. What started out as a marriage of convenience has turned into love but will Fiona have him for the rest of her days?
Miss Fiona Hartley's huge dowry should have ensured that finding a husband would be quick. True, she's a tad older than the average debutante, and spends too much time sketching brutally honest character portraits. She desperately needs a husband so she can access her dowry, lest the man blackmailing her reveals a secret that would ruin her family. So desperate in fact, that she's willing to do the unthinkable - propose marriage to the most surly, irritable gentleman in town.
As a matter of principle, David Gray, the Earl of Somerdale, avoids two types of women: those who are obviously desperate, and those who are stark-raving mad. And it soundly appears Miss Fiona Hartley is both. Yet David can't help but be drawn to her, and gives her a test - if she can spend one week in his dilapidated estate - the same one that caused his previous fiancee to jilt him - then he'll consider her proposal. But as the week goes on, Fiona's refreshing wit find a way into his heart. What started out as a marriage of convenience has turned into love but will Fiona have him for the rest of her days?
Miss Lily Hartley is mastermind behind the ton's obsession: the Debutante's Revenge, an advice column to young ladies. She dresses as a boy to deliver her columns to the newspaper - until a near accident leaves her in the streets. With the Duke of Ravenport coming to her rescue.
Eric Knight, Duke of Ravenport, runs to save a lad from a street accident - only to realise the lad is a woman. A woman who, in the accident, has forgotten her name. Lily is to stay at his estate as Eric finds her family - but he's quickly falling in love with her.
Lily knows her name, but she can't tell the Duke she's the writer behind the column. So she'll fake her memory loss until she can figure out a plan. But love has other ideas.
Eric Knight, Duke of Ravenport, runs to save a lad from a street accident - only to realise the lad is a woman. A woman who, in the accident, has forgotten her name. Lily is to stay at his estate as Eric finds her family - but he's quickly falling in love with her.
Lily knows her name, but she can't tell the Duke she's the writer behind the column. So she'll fake her memory loss until she can figure out a plan. But love has other ideas.