A Lady’s Rules for Ruin (The Lions and Lilies Book 2)
That Frances Cherrington has developed a list of rules to guide her own ruination—and follows them—is the premise of this delightful Regency romance. Frances thinks she’s won her freedom from her family’s match-making pressure, when she stages a kiss at a ball that leads to gossip and scandal. Enjoying her liberty, Frances keeps crossing paths with Evan, the Earl of Winthrop, and when she becomes involved in his efforts to locate and adopt the several illegitimate children that his father left scattered about, Frances has a new purpose in life—one that leads to passion well worth the scandal of being ruined.
Haymore weaves in the sensual scenes in ways that develop the growing romance and deepen the attachment that Evan and Frances feel for each other. The children are charming sidekicks who help convince Frances that marriage might be in her future after all. Evan is a nurturing father figure and enlightened lover who wants to give Frances her dreams and her freedom, and Frances grows in self-awareness as she deals with the consequences of her choices. Suiting modern sensibilities but hitting the beloved period notes, this romance is sure to appeal.
