Duty and love!

A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin    

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Eliza Balfour has been browbeaten all her life. Duty and obedience has been drummed into her. So when her parents arranged a marriage with the wealthy Earl of Somerset, uncle to her true love. Eliza  did her duty, and Captain Courtney joined the 10th Regiment of the Foot.

Eliza’s was a marriage that was endured, a self that had shrunken down so much it was hard for her to even breathe Now she’s widowed. Her husband has surprisingly left her property that had a morality clause attached to it. Eliza would inherit as long as no scandal was attached to her name. Of course her domineering parents wanted her and her fortune back under their household and their control.

Faking fatigue Eliza and her cousin and best friend Margaret Balfour repaired to Bath for three months, and began to live a sober but more gratifying life.

Except Eliza met Lord Melville and his sister Caroline. She took up her paints again. She reached the end of her mourning period and was pleased

This pleasing interlude is interrupted when Lord Somerset called. Now the past and present was on a collision course. And let’s not forget that morality clause!

I loved this second chance romance where Eliza is given hope for the future and the chance to chart her own path, despite the obstacles.

A Penguin Group invite ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.