The Promise of Scandal

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Audacious Lady Lydia Leighton has a dream: to escape her mother's matchmaking long enough to establish The Traveling Finishing School for Young Ladies. When Lydia blackmails Viscount Hasting into a fake engagement she anticipates furthering her scheme-but enjoying London's social whirl on Hasting's arm comes as a revelation. Lydia knows this is a ruse and falling for Hasting would be the opposite of her goals. Can she gamble on him long enough to achieve her goal?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Viscount Hasting's little sister's friend sneaks into his room he anticipates passion not blackmail! Their attraction is so intense he finds himself behaving as the smitten </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>fiancé.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The ruse is only a fortnight yet he's already so attached. Doesn't he know better than to believe in something as naive as this?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will their charade showcase authentic love and acceptance? </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Or is this truly nothing more than the promise of scandal?</span></p><p></p>