Benjamin Wallace, the Earl of Heathton and his clever and beautiful wife Alicia are embroiled again with the enemy they met in Ruined by Moonlight, the first in the Whispers of Scandal series.

Lady Angelina DeBrooke is in love. What to others might be a joyous circumstance awakes an overwhelming dread. She is all-but-accused of murdering her first two husbands. Whomever committed the murders is still unknown, lurking in the shadows. She will do everything within her power to keep her beloved Christopher safe, even lay out the indelicate details of her life to a stranger with the hope he can run down the evil person who has ruined her life. She must do anything within her power to clear the mystery that has overshadowed her past to allow any hope of a bright future.

Christopher Durham, Baron Lowe is becoming impatient with the secret nature of his relationship with the beautiful Angelina. He is certain he will be able to keep both of them safe no matter the source of the danger. He wants only to marry her and bring him into his life as one of the preeminent architects of his day. When the Earl of Heathton brings home the gravity of the danger, not only to him but to Angelina he is willing to follow his advice for a time, but aches for confrontation .

A MOST IMPROPER RUMOR is a mystery nested within a mystery, a romance within a romance. Each book in Emma Wildes' Whisper of Scandal series is a bit different than a standard historical romance. Although the central puzzler and one of the couples is unique to each book, there is also an over-arching story line that involves the two main (now married)characters as well as the greater mystery of who is masterminding the repeated evil. Wildes provides readers with a clever, engrossing read and a happy ending while leaving trails that will make readers eager to pick up the next book in the series when it is published.