“I would feel better if you did assess the situation for yourself.”

“Why?” Dagmar looked up from where she had been adding a word or two to the letter.

More vague hand gestures followed. “Well…he might not meet with your satisfaction.”

Dagmar tried very hard not to laugh. “I assure you most sincerely that I will have no undue expectations of this poor soul.”

“And then there’s the fact that he’s just lying out in the garden. He might hurt himself in his stupor. Or someone might trip over him. Or wolves might devour him while he is without his senses. I would feel much better if you were to view the situation.”

Dagmar set down the quill. “You’re not going to let me finish until I do, are you?”

“I would never presume—”

Dagmar stood, knowing the sooner she went out and viewed the man, the sooner she could return to pleading with her cousin. “Very well, let us view this new addition to the garden.”

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Caroline, the popular widowed Countess of Stratton, sits alone at the pinnacle of London society and has no wish to remarry. But when the brilliant, reclusive Duke of Wyverne—her counterpart in an old scandal—returns to town after a long absence, she finds herself as enthralled as ever.

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by Amelia Grey

She came to avoid a scandal

Olivia Banning came to London to solve one mystery, and stumbled upon another quite by accident. Unfortunately her plans are disrupted when the notoriously rakish Earl of Dugdale catches her investigating—in his bedchamber.

And ended up the talk of the ton

Andrew Terwillger, the Earl of Dugdale, scoffs at Olivia’s tales of things that go bump in the night, although her beauty and courage are tempting. When they’re caught in a kiss, neither he nor she wants the marriage Society demands. But marry they must, despite their misgivings. And as soon as they say, “I do,” increasingly strange and mysterious things start to happen…