An Eye for the Chance

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Lady Evelyn Chance daughter of the Earl of Lindow is too busy scandalizing the ton one portrait at a time to care about her marital prospects.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She is an artist: and like any true artist she is determined to paint from a model... except she can hardly turn up at the Royal Academy of Art. So she does what any self-respecting aristocrat does when she needs a servant.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She advertises.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The man who answers that advertisement is tall handsome rough around the edges and far too perceptive. Despite what the job entails he refuses to take his clothes off. It's not precisely what Evelyn had in mind but she can't deny he makes a fascinating subject.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He is also Richard Sempill Viscount Sempill. But Evelyn doesn't know that.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the beautiful genteel artist with whom he thought to amuse himself is desperate to keep her model a blank canvas for her paintings Richard agrees to keep everything about himself a secret from her: his name his title his wealth-everything.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Before long late-night painting leads to late-night kissing and just when Richard is ready to abandon his romantic reticence and make declarations...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Disaster happens.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This novel continues the highly anticipated Chance family drama with sixteen cousins and triple the problems. Tropes include: secret identity mistaken identity bluestocking artist heroine only one bed and of course Emily E K Murdoch's tried and true method of sizzling joyful romance.</span></p>