The Earl Takes a Lover

London, 1801

No one could have guessed that virginal companion Penelope Montague is the author of the scandalous manual A Woman's Handbook. Society believes she was educated in a convent, unaware she spent the first half of her life raised by the ladies of the famous Black Swan brothel.

Only rake Robin Sackville Tufton, Earl of Thanet, sees the sensual woman behind Pen's proper exterior. From the moment he sees her, he wants her more than anything else. But Pen isn't fit to be an earl's wife,...