The Muse of Maiden Lane (Belles of London #4)
Mimi Matthews
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Behind closed doors [?]
· 34 ratings · Published: 19 Nov 2024
Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist—and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother’s pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic…like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who’s ever really seen her.
Aspiring painter Edward “Teddy” Hayes knows true beauty when he sees it. He would never ask Stella to risk her reputation as an artist’s model but in the five years since a virulent bout of scarlet fever left him partially paralyzed, Teddy has learned to heed good fortune when he finds it. He’ll do anything to persuade his muse to pose for him, even if he must offer her a marriage of convenience.
After all, though Teddy has yearned to trace Stella’s luminous beauty on canvas since their chance meeting, her heart is what he truly aches to capture….
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Tagged as:
- victorian 6
- historical 5
- m-f romance 5
- marriage of convenience 4
- disabilities & scars 4
- virgin hero 3
- virgin heroine 3
- tortured hero 2
- caretaking 2
- athlete heroine 2
- found family 1
- forced proximity 1
- friends to lovers 1
- dual pov 1
- third person pov 1
- Add topics
- geography
- england 3
- europe 2
- british isles 1
- content warnings
- ableism 3
- misogyny 3
- religious trauma 3
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The 'Belles of London' series
4.02 · 185 ratings
victorian · england · dual-pov · m-f · british-isles · europe · historical · third-person-pov · forced proximity · united-kingdom · tortured hero · caretaking · abuse-non-mc · disabilities and marks · angst · virgin heroine · length-long · behind-doors · marriage of convenience · sweet-hero
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