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With that said, the writing wasn't over complicated and might I say dry like a Jane Austen novel (please don't hate me, I do love Pride and Prejudice) which I think lends itself well for modern readers. Many historical romance books I read nowadays read and feel very modern, but in The Earl I Ruined I felt as though I was watching a BBC period drama. She has a flavor for beautiful writing that fits the historical setting.

I have come to offer you my hand in marriage."Scarlett Peckham is a Golden Heart winner for Historical Romance and I can see why! There is character and a her unique author voice in her writing that I absolutely love. "Lord Apthorp, I am here to do what integrity demands when one's actions have, however inadvertently, ruined the reputation of another person. This book contains the following: explicit sex consensual kink and BDSM masturbation with creative objects the outing of a character’s private erotic preferences sex work trauma concerning past unwanted sexual advances and one very annoying dog. (If you prefer to be surprised, skip this part!) There’s only one problem: he can’t forgive her for breaking his heart.įair readers, a note on content, for those who like to know. They have a month to clear his name and convince society they are madly in love…īut when Constance discovers her faux-intended is decidedly more than meets the eye-not to mention adept at shocking forms of wickedness-she finds herself falling for him. When the woman he’s secretly in love with confesses she’s at fault, it isn’t just his life that is shattered: it’s his heart. Julian Haywood, the Earl of Apthorp, is on the cusp of finally proving himself to be the man he’s always wanted to be when his future is destroyed in a single afternoon. He’s supposedly the most boring politician in the House of Lords.

Or the fact that he disapproves of everything she holds dear. Never mind that it means spending a month with the dullest man in England. Or, at the very least, stage a whirlwind fake engagement to repair his reputation. When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp’s entire future with her gossip column, she does what any honorable young lady must: offer her hand in marriage.