Scandalous #3
Pocket
October 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Featuring: Grayson Christopher; Kate Bergeron
400 pages ISBN: 1416547126 EAN: 9781416547129 Mass Market Paperback
A COURTESAN'S SCANDAL is the last book in the Scandalous Series, which began with BOOK OF SCANDAL, HIGHLAND SCANDAL, and included a short story, Snowy Night with a Highlander in the anthology, SNOWY NIGHT WITH A STRANGER. The books are centered around a very real scandal involving the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1806-7. The prince wanted a divorce and accused the princess of adultery. She wanted to remain a royal princess and accused the prince of adultery and more, threatening to publish a little pamphlet about all the nasty things he’d been up to. The royal divorce scandal held the public in thrall for several months.
In the Scandalous Series, each book is about how that public scandal touched the lives of others who flew to close to the throne. In BOOK OF SCANDAL, the heroine knows too much about what the prince has done, and could be called to testify, which, given her own behavior, could be ruinous. So her estranged husband drags her home from London to keep her out of the limelight. In HIGHLAND SCANDAL, the Earl of Lambourne is accused of sleeping with the Princess of Wales, a treasonable offense which could be punishable by death, and flees England for his native Scotland, where things don’t go so well for him.
In A COURTESAN'S SCANDAL, Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant . . . and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. But mired in his disastrous attempt at divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the eligible Duke of Darlington, to pretend to London society that he is having an affair with Kate. When Grayson reluctantly agrees to his Prince’s demand—he has a few secrets of his own that the prince threatens to reveal—Grayson finds the lady no more willing than he is. Kate will grudgingly act the part in public, but her favors are not for sale to any man.
As Grayson and Kate mimic ardor for the world to see, they find what started as a deception becoming all too real. And when passion flames into love, their predicament becomes extreme. For while marriage between a duke and a courtesan could never happen, Kate knows in her heart that she will accept nothing less.
I sincerely hope you enjoy A COURTESAN'S SCANDAL as well as the entire series as much as I enjoyed writing it.