Book description
Lady Philippa Marbury is . . . odd.
The brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more
for books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories
than love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiancé and
quietly living out her days with her dogs and her scientific
experiments. But before that, Pippa has two weeks to experience all the
rest - fourteen days to research the exciting parts of life. It's not
much time, and to do it right she needs a guide familiar with London's
darker corners.
She needs . . . a scoundrel.
She needs Cross, the clever, controlled partner in London's most
exclusive gaming hell, with a carefully crafted reputation for
wickedness. But reputations often hide the darkest secrets, and when the
unconventional Pippa boldly propositions him, seeking science without
emotion, she threatens all he works to protect. He is tempted to give
Pippa precisely what she wants . . . but the scoundrel is more than he
seems, and it will take every ounce of willpower to resist giving the
lady more than she ever imagined. Sarah MacLean grew up in Rhode
Island, obsessed with historical romance and bemoaning the fact that she
was born far too late for her own season. Her love of all things
historical helped to earn her degrees from Smith College and Harvard
University before she finally set pen to paper and wrote her first book.
Sarah now lives in New York City with her husband, their dog, and a
ridiculously large collection of romance novels.
