There’s only one problem: he can’t forgive her for breaking his heart. But when Constance discovers her faux-intended is decidedly more than meets the eye, not to mention adept at shocking forms of wickedness, she finds herself falling for him. When she accidentally ruins his life, there is only one proper thing to do: marry him to restore his reputation.

They have a month to clear his name and convince society they are madly in love. THE EARL I RUINED 2018 Golden Heart® finalist in Historical Romance and 2018 Fire & Ice finalist When Lady Constance Stonewell exposes the Earl of Apthorps most illicit secret in her gossip column, shes only trying protect a friend. When the woman he’s secretly in love with confesses she’s at fault, it isn’t just his life that is shattered: it’s his heart. The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham, Dec 11, 2018, Nancy Yost Literary Agency, Inc edition, paperback.

Julian Haywood, the Earl of Apthorp, is on the cusp of finally proving himself to be the man he’s always wanted to be when his future is destroyed in a single afternoon. He’s supposedly the most boring politician in the House of Lords. Or the fact that he disapproves of everything she holds dear. Never mind that it means spending a month with the dullest man in England. Or, at the very least, stage a whirlwind fake engagement to repair his reputation. When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp’s entire future with her gossip column, she does what any honorable young lady must: offer her hand in marriage. But Poppy yearns to unravel her husband’s secrets - and to tempt the duke to risk his heart.She’s beautiful, rich, and reckless. The arrangement is meant to be just business. But there is something so compelling about Westmead, with his starchy bearing and impossibly kind eyes - that when an accidental scandal makes marriage to the duke the only means to save her nursery, Poppy worries she wants more than the title he is offering. She wants the capital to expand her exotic nursery business - not a husband. An ambitious self-taught botanist designing the garden ballroom in which Westmead plans to woo a bride, Poppy has struggled against convention all her life to secure her hard-won independence. Poppy Cavendish is not that type of woman. Which means he must find a wife who won’t discover his secret craving to spend his nights on his knees - or make demands on his long scarred-over heart.

Having overcome financial ruin and redeemed his family name to become the most legendary investor in London, the Duke of Westmead needs to secure his holdings by producing an heir. No one would expect the proper Duke of Westmead to be a member of London’s most illicit secret club.

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