num_pages: 384
description: In the first book in Eva Leigh's new Union of the Rakes series a bluestocking hires a faux suitor to help her land an ideal husband only to be blindsided by real desireLady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. But when a handsome celebrated naturalist returns from abroad Grace wishes for once to be noticed. Her solution: to build the perfect man who will court her publicly and help her catch his eye. Grace's colleague anthropologist Sebastian Holloway is just the blank slate she requires.In exchange for funding his passage on an expedition leaving London in a few months Sebastian allows Grace to transform him from a bespectacled bookish academic into a dashingalbeit fakerake. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations Grace's feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable inconvenient real attraction. If only she hadn't hired him to help her marry someone else...Sebastian is in love with brilliant beautiful Grace but their bargain is complete and she desires another. Yet when he's faced with losing her forever Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth even if it means risking his own futureand his heart.
language: English
title: My Fake Rake
publisher: Avon