While on a heist, Tamsin Archer is dressed like a footman. She’s annoyed to discover the window she planned to escape from is stuck. Worse, she’s not alone in the library. There’s a man there, a man who did her a kindness two years ago, and she hasn’t been able to stop thinking about him. He questions her and almost captures her. Instead, she kisses him, takes his coins, and flees out the window.
Now Garret’s the one who can’t stop thinking about her. Luckily, one of his brothers comes up with a plan to find her. Garret blackmails her into meeting him and then pries the truth out of her. She’s had a terrible year of luck. Her mother lost her arm in a work-related accident. Her employer sold her siblings, ages eight and six, to the local chimney sweep. Tamsin will do anything to get them back, but the price to buy them back is an enormous sum. She’s barely getting by.
Garret’s determined to help; he comes up with a solution. Together, they traipse around London looking for information. Tamsin dresses as a footman and asks questions downstairs while Garret asks questions upstairs. Will they find the information they need in order for Tamsin to move forward?
A SHOP GIRL'S GUIDE TO WOOING A LORD is the first in a new series from Shana Galen. Garret is the second son of an Earl from Ireland. As his family’s in dire financial trouble, one of the children (three sons and a daughter) must marry well. Garret’s torn between his duty and his desire for Tamsin. Tamsin’s a feisty, smart heroine who’s determined to achieve a better life for her family. At the heart of the novel, both Garret and Tamsin wish to help their families. A fantastic start to a new series that will leave readers rooting for Garret and Tamsin and eagerly looking forward to the next book.
A down-on-her-luck shop girl and the son of an earl find they have more in common than they thought—including sexual chemistry they can’t resist—in this fresh Regency romance by Shana Galen.Tamsin Archer might just be having the worst year of her life. And that’s saying something, considering her father is dead, her mother was maimed at work, and her family regularly sleeps under London’s bridges. But when her younger siblings go missing, Tamsin decides it’s time to step up and fight.Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Tamsin’s more than willing to take a few risks to reunite with her siblings. But while disguising herself to sneak into homes and steal from the rich, Tamsin is caught by Garret Kildare, the second son of an earl. Much to Tamsin’s surprise, Garret doesn’t want to turn her in. He wants to help her. Though Tamsin’s wary—she’s learned to never trust supposed “good luck”—the unlikely pair form an alliance, one that quickly muddles their class differences. Garret knows he must be careful. Falling for a woman of a lower class could be the nail in the coffin for his family’s tenuous social standing, and there are eyes everywhere. Ignoring their attraction proves impossible, though, and soon the lines they’ve drawn around their partnership begin to blur. As more focus lands on Tamsin and Garret, they wonder if their red-hot connection means giving up everything—and everyone—they’ve ever known.
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