Scandal Takes The Stage

Maggie Delamere writes plays for a living, and she is successful at it. She has no patience for the attentions of noblemen, having once paid a heavy price for a moment of weakness. Cameron, Viscount Marwood, pursues her anyway, with a persistence she finds maddening and a face she finds irritatingly handsome. She turns him away at every opportunity.

Then a new play is due, and the pressure to deliver it leaves her stuck. Cameron, who goes by Cam, offers the use of his country estate as a place to write. The invitation is hard to refuse, and she accepts.

Cam has admired her work for years. He wants to learn whether the private, mysterious woman behind the plays is as passionate and clever as her words on the page. He has never invited a lady to his bed without joining her there, but he is ready to make that offer if it frees her pen and loosens her guard.

What begins as a plan of seduction turns into a contest for Maggie's heart. Society sees Cam as a carefree, scandalous rake. Maggie is the only woman who has looked past that reputation.

This is a historical romance with an enemies-to-lovers pull, a writer's retreat in the countryside and a theatrical world in the background. The question it poses is whether their bond can outlast the final curtain.