The Widow’s London Scandal: A Regency Romance Of Opera Intrigue, Loss, And Forbidden Desire (Hearts of the Scandal Season #2)

She ruined her reputation with a single leap. Now, only a fake engagement to a dangerous earl can save her family.

Lady Eliza Fairchild has spent years crafting a perfect facade to hide her merchant roots. That facade shatters the night she leaps from her opera box to save a poisoned tenor—her secret half-brother. Now branded a scandal by the gossip sheets and facing a ruthless ultimatum to remarry or lose her fortune, Eliza finds herself cornered. She needs a shield, but she refuses to be controlled.

A Spymaster with a mission. Sebastian Hawke, the Earl of Ravenswood, deals in secrets, not sentiment. As the Crown's most efficient handler, he knows the attack at the opera was no accident. A deadly code is being smuggled through the theater's programs, and Eliza is the key to deciphering it. He offers her a marriage of his title for her safety, her access for his investigation.

A partnership that breaks every rule. It was supposed to be a cold transaction. But Eliza is no docile pawn; she is a fierce partner who challenges Sebastian's orders and storms into danger by his side. As they hunt a predator through the gaslit corridors of the opera house and the shadowed alleys of London, the line between their performance and reality dissolves.

Sebastian swore never to let emotion compromise a mission again. But to save Eliza from the enemy closing in, he must risk the one thing he keeps most his heart.

Marriage of Convenience, Spy Romance, Class Difference, Protective Hero, Widowed Heroine, Regency Mystery, High-Stakes Intrigue.