The Spinster's Secret

Matilda Chapple is orphaned penniless and dependent on her uncles meager charity-but shes finally found a way to earn her livelihood. With the help of an old diary and a lurid novel shell write her way to financial independence!When Mattie pens a series of racy short stories she starts earning money . . . and notoriety. Her secret is safe-until disfigured Waterloo veteran Edward Kane agrees to uncover the anonymous authors identity.Can Mattie conceal the secret of her scandalous writings or will Edward discover that the respectable spinster and the risqué authoress are one and the same person?A Regency romance featuring a battle-scarred hero an enterprising heroine a gothic manor house and some of the worst food in England.