Entertaining the Earl

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She has a fortune but no title. Or beauty.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A plain-faced blue stockinged spinster Miss Susannah Lyttleton would spend every waking minute reading if she could much to her parents' despair. So when her father announces that the Earl of Bourne will be spending the Season with them Susannah is not excited about the prospect.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She imagines he'll be an old man with a receding hairline who hasn't got a clue how to behave now that he's unexpectedly inherited a grand title. So when the earl in question Colin is five-and-twenty and devastatingly handsome she is rather taken aback.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One night in Vauxhall Gardens he asks Susannah a favor: to pretend to have an understanding with him in order to ward off the prowling mamas and their marriage-minded daughters.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Will the ton believe that the handsome Earl of Bourne has fallen in love with the bookish Miss Lyttleton? And when the earl realizes the pretense is becoming reality for him will she believe him?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes you'll love:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Plain/Bookish Heroine</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Handsome Newly Inherited Earl</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marriage-Minded Mothers & Daughters</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fake Courtship / Pretend Engagement</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Opposites Attract</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wallflower to Desirable Match</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vauxhall Gardens Encounter</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Falling in Love with the Ruse</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Vows in Vauxhall Gardens</u></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1: The Lady of the Lamps</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2: Entertaining the Earl</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3: A Vow from a Viscount</span></p>