What she doesn’t count on is the Marquess hearing of her plan, of the unlikely alliance and friendship that blooms between the two of them, following by a romance no-one saw coming. Her reputation thus tarnished, she should find herself (happily) unmarriagable. Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury to her advantage and claim he has snuck into her room and spent the evening. Maryann Fitzwilliam has no desire to become the wife of a man she doesn’t know, and so she conceives a plan to use the rakish reputation of Nicoles St. Stacy Reid’s first book in the Sinful Wallflowers series, My Darling Duke, was one of the first historical romance books I read, and so I was really pleased to receive a review copy from Netgalley of the second book. 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. Now she just needs to convince the marquess to keep his silence. 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. Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury, climbing out the chamber windows of a house party, Maryann does the unthinkable.

When the scandal sheet reports a sighting of Nicolas St.

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

Her wicked marquess