A Most Dreadful Guide to Ruin

Name: A Most Dreadful Guide to Ruin
Author: Samantha Blok

by Samantha Blok

Genre: Romance

73 pages

London Society demands perfection. Hetty Tolliver is about to deliver absolute chaos.

As the eldest of five sisters, Miss Henrietta Tolliver is everything a proper young lady ought to be: elegant, accomplished and endlessly agreeable… and she is utterly, mind-numbingly bored of it. If she must smile sweetly through one more pianoforte recital or suffer another dull dinner party spent discussing drainage, she might very well scream. Her solution is simple, and entirely improper: she shall engineer a scandal so ruinous that no respectable gentleman would dare offer for her hand.
Theodore Winslow, the Earl of Langley, is her childhood friend, London’s most notorious flirt and precisely the sort of man foolish enough to help. Theo considers Hetty’s plan absurd… which makes it all the more irresistible. After all, what harm could come from a few stolen dances, a scandalously low neckline, and perhaps a duel or two?
Unfortunately, what begins as a mock courtship soon unravels in a most inconvenient fashion: Hetty is declared the Diamond of the Season, suitors flock by the dozen, and the gossip columns swoon over their tender romance. Somewhere between moonlit kisses, an accidental shooting and a faux engagement that refuses to remain pretend, Hetty discovers that the true danger is not in scandal… but in falling hopelessly, disastrously in love.

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