Her Wicked Marquess

by Stacy Reid

Overview

Miss Maryann Fitzwilliam is too witty and bookish for her own good. No gentleman of the ton will marry her, so her parents arrange for her to wed a man old enough to be her father. But Maryann is ready to use those wits to turn herself into a sinful wallflower.

When the scandal sheet reports a sighting of Nicolas St. Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury, climbing out the chamber windows of a house party, Maryann does the unthinkable. She anonymously claims that the bedchamber belonged to none other than Miss Fitzwilliam, tarnishing her own reputation—and chances of the dastardly union her family secured for her. Now she just needs to convince the marquess to keep his silence.

Turns out Nicolas allows for the scandal to perpetuate for his own reasons… But when Maryann’s parents hold fast to their arranged marriage plan, it’ll take a scandal of epic proportions for these two to get out of this together.

Each book in the Sinful Wallflowers series is STANDALONE:
* My Darling Duke
* Her Wicked Marquess
* A Scoundrel of Her Own

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682815205
Publisher:	Entangled Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/29/2020
Series:	The Sinful Wallflowers , #2
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	818 KB

About the Author

USA Today bestselling author Stacy Reid writes sensual Historical and Paranormal Romances and is the published author of over twenty books. Her debut novella The Duke’s Shotgun Wedding was a 2015 HOLT Award of Merit recipient in the Romance Novella category, and her bestselling Wedded by Scandal series is recommended as Top picks at Night Owl Reviews, Fresh Fiction Reviews, and The Romance Reviews.

Stacy lives a lot in the worlds she creates and actively speaks to her characters (aloud). She has a warrior way “Never give up on dreams!” When she’s not writing, Stacy spends a copious amount of time binge-watching series like The Walking Dead, Altered Carbon, Rise of the Phoenixes, Ten Miles of Peach Blossom, and playing video games with her love. She also has a weakness for ice cream and will have it as her main course.

Stacy Reid writes sensual historical and paranormal romances and is the author of more than twenty books. Her debut novella, The Duke’s Shotgun Wedding, was a HOLT Award of Merit recipient, and her bestselling Wedded by Scandal series is recommended as top picks at Night Owl Reviews, Fresh Fiction Reviews, and The Romance Reviews.

Stacy has a warrior way and believes in “Never give up on dreams!” When she’s not writing, Stacy spends a copious amount of time binge-watching series like The Walking Dead, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, Love and Destiny, and The Rise of Phoenixes. She currently lives in Jamaica with her husband.

Visit her online at stacyreid.com

Editorial Reviews

2021-01-05
A flirty historical romance with an undercurrent of revenge.

Lady Maryann Elanor Fitzwilliam just wants to be a bit wicked—not only to show the townspeople that she’s not a wallflower, but also to get out of a planned marriage to a 50-something friend of her father’s. While pulling a prank on some mean ladies at a party, Maryann realizes too late that the Marquess of Rothbury, Nicolas St. Ives, has unintentionally become entangled in her scheme. Nicolas had been planning to investigate her brother, Crispin, to see if he’s a villain he’s been searching for: a vile figure known as “the black Dahlia.” But when Nicolas finds himself dragged into Lady Maryann’s plot, he gives himself over to it as a fun diversion. Before long, she pops back into his life again—this time, falsely accusing him of sneaking into her bedroom to claim a kiss. Maryann does her level best to ruin her reputation, even though she knows that it will hurt her family. Later, Nicolas is worried that Maryann will be pulled into his own grim investigation, and he sneaks into her bedroom—for real, this time—to warn her away. But once again, her charms and wit are too formidable to resist. Unfortunately, Maryann’s plans don’t work out as she hoped. Over the course of this second novel in the Sinful Wallflowers series, author Reid pens an exciting and often entertaining historical tale. Nicolas and Maryann are amusing in their interactions with other, secondary characters, but they’re at their very best when verbally sparring with each other. If anything, readers will wish that there were even more of these pleasant scenes, because Nicolas’ investigation, which centers on domestic abuse and rape, brings a much darker element to the story that jarringly clashes with the lighthearted manner of most of the tale.

A novel with some appealing byplay that struggles with an inconsistent tone.

Kirkus Reviews