A Season Of Schemes

To save her family from ruin, a clever bluestocking must form a dangerous alliance with the one man in London she should avoid: the formidable Viscount who broke her heart.

Lady Elodie Vance discovers her family is being bled dry by a respected friend's elegant fraud. Her only path to salvation is a devil's bargain with Lord Gabriel Stirling, Viscount Stonehurst-a man of ice and intellect who once coldly dismissed her youthful love. He offers a simple, clinical arrangement: her sharp mind and social access, in exchange for his protection and her family's security.

Thrust into a world of deception, they must navigate glittering ballrooms and midnight searches, pretending a partnership that grows more perilous by the day. Elodie finds the icy Viscount guards a scarred and secretive heart, while Gabriel is unnerved by the brave, brilliant woman who challenges his every guarded instinct.

But when a single, stolen kiss shatters the careful rules of their business arrangement, their fragile trust threatens to collapse. With a powerful enemy closing in, Gabriel must decide whether to retreat behind the walls of his past, or risk everything-his reputation, his control, and his carefully fortified heart-for a love that was never part of the bargain.

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