Love and Other Scandals

Pages: 384
Published: 2013
Language: English

Joan Bennet would much rather read a book than hunt for a husband, but her parents are about to force her into a marriage with a dreadfully boring peer. Desperate to escape, she decides that staging a public scandal is her best option. Tristan Burke, Lord Hallworth, has the opposite problem: he needs a respectable wife immediately to secure his inheritance. When the sharp-tongued Joan and the notorious rake collide, their clashing plans spark an unexpected attraction that could ruin them both.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Funny Lighthearted Spicy

Enemies to Lovers Forced Proximity

Historical Romance Regency Romance Historical Fiction

Caroline Linden

Caroline Linden earned a mathematics degree from Harvard College and worked in computer software before turning to fiction after having children. She has published historical and contemporary romance novels since 2005, and her novella I Love the Earl won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella in 2012 — the first digital-first publication to do so. Her books have also won the NJRW Golden Leaf and Daphne du Maurier awards and have been translated into seventeen language...