Eleanor doesn't want a husband, so she'll need a plan...
As a Duke's daughter not marrying isn't an option, unless she causes such a scandal no one will want her. The problem is rakes reform, fortune hunters won't beg off, and her four older brothers have scared the rest of the men of Ton off. But with the help of her best friends, the Heiresses of Eris, she forms the perfect plan to make her the toast of the Ton and then leave her reputation in tatters. She just needs a willing accomplice.
At his club, Simeon, the Duke of Northford feels as if someone has walked over his grave and shivers with the chill. But it does remind him that friend's sister is still due a comeuppance for all the pranks she pulled on him while she was still in the school room. Come to mention it, he hasn't seen her on the marriage mart. Perhaps it is time to see whatever became of the most dangerous of the Stonington's family.
But his slow burn seduction gets turned on its head when she asks him to teach her the pleasures of the marriage bed. He'd never ruin an innocent, but maybe he can convince her marriage has its charms. But why does the thought of her with any other man make him want to punch something?
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Author Interview:
Why write Regency Romance if you aren't going to write it "correctly"?
Because as much as I love Regency tropes the actual language and social customs are torturous. Have you read dear Jane? I mean all credit to her, she invented the novel as we know it and I adore anything that puts Colin Firth in breeches but to sit down and read one of her stories now is onerous. We don't speak like that anymore and there are hours of nothing to do. I love Regency love stories for the tension that the social mores of that time yield. But I also love a good laugh. These books give me the tropes I love, laughter, and women I can see myself and my friends in. These are women you can imagine hatching plans with and enjoying a good laugh at how it all turned out afterwards.
If the women aren't related how are they the "Heiresses of Eris"?
One of the Regency tropes I love is the informal "club", usually men bound together over a common distrust of women or some such nonsense which in the end they all get over. Eris is the Greek goddess of chaos. She's the one who started the Trojan War by tossing an apple into a group of goddesses that said "to the fairest". These girls cause their own sort of mayhem. None of them were comfortable in the roles society assigned them. All of them decided to take matters into their own hands. That they all met was fate. When they did, they dubbed themselves the Heiresses of Eris. They knew what they were from the start.
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