num_pages: 403
description: Firmly on the shelf Poppy Fairchild has spent the past few years eking out a living as a Gothic novelistunder a pseudonymto support herself and her younger sisters. Lacking for inspiration for some particularly salacious scenes she seizes upon the idea to spy upon a gentleman engaged in an illicit liaison at a ball for research purposes. Unbeknownst to her shes chosen exactly the wrong gentleman from which to draw inspiration. David Kittridge the Earl of Westwood is deep in the throes of heartbreak as the woman he loves has recently become engaged to someone else. Engaging in meaningless trysts seems as good a way as any to cure himself of lovesickness but after mistaking Poppy for a woman in search of a touch of scandal and a kiss that leaves him reeling he finds that he cant quite get her out of his head. David is incensed when he discovers that he has been used as material for a Gothic novel and is determined to ferret out the culprit. But when he comes into possession of Poppys writing notebook and learns of her secret career as a Gothic novelist he realizes the notebook comes with an unexpected boonthe leverage he needs to lure in the reluctant Poppy. If anyone should discover her secret it would destroy her reputation and ruin her sisters chances of making decent matches. But Davids blackmail leads them down a path that neither would ever have expected.
language: None
title: His Reluctant Lady
publisher: None