A Lady Awakened (Blackshear Family #1)
Cecilia Grant
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
3.80
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Explicit open door [?]
· 168 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 41
- pregnancy 35
- sunny/happy hero 30
- grumpy/ice queen 29
- secret relationship 29
- grumpy & sunshine 27
- independent heroine 27
- take-charge heroine 27
- regency 26
- breeding 24
- competent heroine 24
- sweet/gentle hero 20
- m-f romance 17
- himbo 16
- funny 16
- bondage 15
- somnophilia 13
- demisexual heroine 12
- rich hero 10
- friends to lovers 6
- friends with benefits 5
- angst 4
- fem-dom 4
- forbidden love 3
- Add topics
- content warnings
- third party sexual assault 12
- past sexual abuse 9
- dubious consent 8
- alcoholism 5
- non-consent between mcs 1
- geography
- england 12
- united kingdom 6
- british isles 5
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 17
- third person pov 17
- male pov 4
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The 'Blackshear Family' series
3.86 · 331 ratings
england · regency · m-f · historical · sweet-hero · dual-pov · strong heroine · third-person-pov · audiobook · competent heroine · male-pov · independent heroine · death · friends to lovers · secret-relationship · angst · united-kingdom · british-isles · open-door · forbidden love
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