A Lady Awakened (Blackshear Family #1)
Cecilia Grant
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
3.74
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 132 ratings · 368 pages · Published: 27 Dec 2011
Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes . . . for a fee.
Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Should be appalled. But how can he resist this siren in widow’s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she’ll get her money’s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh—only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Surely she can’t resist him forever. But could a lady’s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all . . . love?
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Tagged as:
- historical 36
- pregnancy 29
- sunny/happy hero 27
- grumpy/ice queen 25
- regency 24
- grumpy & sunshine 23
- secret relationship 23
- independent heroine 22
- take-charge heroine 22
- breeding 20
- competent heroine 18
- sweet/gentle hero 16
- dual pov 16
- third person pov 16
- himbo 14
- funny 13
- m-f romance 13
- bondage 11
- somnophilia 9
- rich hero 8
- demisexual heroine 5
- male pov 4
- friends to lovers 3
- angst 3
- forbidden love 3
- friends with benefits 3
- fem-dom 3
- sweet/gentle heroine 2
- tortured heroine 1
- bad boys 1
- Add topics
- geography
- england 11
- united kingdom 6
- british isles 5
- content warnings
- third party sexual assault 9
- past sexual abuse 7
- dubious consent 5
- alcoholism 3
- non-consent between mcs 1
romance tags
The 'Blackshear Family' series
3.81 · 269 ratings
strong heroine · sweet-hero · third-person-pov · historical · regency · dual-pov · m-f · england · sweet heroine · united-kingdom · friends to lovers · secret-relationship · death · independent heroine · competent heroine · british-isles · male-pov · angst · slow burn · class difference
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