Octavius and the Perfect Governess: A Baleful Godmother Novel

by Emily Larkin

Overview

Lord Octavius Pryor leads a carefree and untroubled life, until the night he visits Vauxhall Gardens in the guise of a woman.

At Vauxhall, Octavius discovers that being a female is very different from being a man. Annoyingly different, unpleasantly different, and-when he encounters the lecherous Baron Rumpole-dangerously different.

Determined to teach the baron a lesson, Octavius infiltrates Rumpole's household, where he meets the woman of his dreams: Miss Toogood, governess to the baron's daughters.

Suddenly Octavius has three pressing tasks. 1) To teach the baron to keep his yardstick in his breeches. 2) To keep Miss Toogood safe. 3) To convince her to marry him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995136694
Publisher:	Emily Gee
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Series:	Pryor Cousins , #1
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Emily Larkin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling "sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining," and "ridiculously wonderful."

When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking, preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye.

Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards, and has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year and New Zealand Romance of the Year awards.

Editorial Reviews

"The plot is unique, the dialogue is witty, and the characters are fascinating."

~Goodreads reviewer

"The book has many layers and is thought-provoking, but it's also rollicking fun. I laughed, chortled and (once or twice) snorted my way through the many funny parts, I cried and was relieved during the tense parts, and in between I was happy, touched, enchanted, and completely involved from the first word until the last."

~Amazon reviewer

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