A House Party Scandal In Mayfair: A Regency Romance Of Stolen Jewels, Storm Stranded Hearts, And One Night That Changes Everything (Hearts of the Scandal Season #5)

She planned the perfect house party to save her family’s reputation. A thief planned to ruin it.

Rosalind Templeton is the perfect composed, elegant, and entirely in control. Her seaside house party at Saltleigh is meant to be the triumph of the Season, complete with a matchmaking wager to entertain her high-society guests. But when a Duchess’s priceless diamond necklace vanishes from a locked room, Rosalind’s carefully orchestrated world begins to crumble. Facing social ruin and a scandal that could destroy her brother’s estate, she needs help—but the only man noticing the cracks in her armor is the one guest she never intended to trust.

A scoundrel with a sharp eye. Nicholas Brooke knows what it is to be the subject of a scandal sheet. Burdened by debt and a checkered past, he came to Saltleigh to keep his head down. But he possesses a talent for seeing what others miss. When he finds Rosalind investigating a bar of soap marked with the impression of a stolen key, he realizes the hostess isn't just arranging flowers—she’s hunting a criminal.

A storm that traps them together. As a violent gale batters the coast, trapping the party indoors, the thief strikes again. Forced to shelter together in a crumbling garden folly, Rosalind and Nicholas forge a desperate alliance. Amidst wind, rain, and candlelight, they devise a daring a riddle-based scavenger hunt designed to flush out the culprit.

But as they unravel a web of citrus-scented clues and shadowed corridors, the line between their investigation and their hearts begins to blur. Nicholas promised to help Rosalind catch a thief, but he’s in danger of stealing the one thing she swore never to give away.

House Party Mystery, Forced Proximity (Storm), Partners in Crime, Class Difference, Intelligent Heroine, Reformed Rake, Regency Romance.