A Scholar’s Season Of Scandal: A Regency Romance Of A Garden Catastrophe, A Practical Marriage, And Unexpected Passion (Hearts of the Scandal Season #6)

She ruined her reputation to save a stranger. Now she is married to a baron who believes he is too dangerous to love.

Meg Linwood prefers translating Greek myths to navigating London ballrooms. She has always lived in the margins, invisible and content. But when she spots a statue toppling at a garden party and rushes to intervene, she creates the season's biggest scandal. Plucked from a pond by the reclusive Baron Eversham, she is dripping wet, thoroughly compromised, and facing social annihilation.

A Baron haunted by his bloodline. Nathaniel Blackthorne has spent his life outrunning his father’s madness. He keeps his estate in rigid order and his heart locked away, convinced that solitude is the only way to protect the world from his own potential instability. When honor demands he marry the bedraggled woman he pulled from the water, he intends to offer her his name and his protection—never his heart.

A conspiracy to declare him unfit. It begins with a cut bridle and a loosened bolt. Accidents are piling up at Eversham Park, all designed to make Nathaniel look incompetent—or insane. A ruthless cousin is circling, armed with a petition to seize control of the estate. But he didn’t count on Meg.

Instead of a docile wife, Nathaniel finds he has married a brilliant partner who reads ledgers like maps and refuses to be shut out. As they race to untangle a web of sabotage and betrayal, the walls between them crumble. Nathaniel swore to keep Meg at a safe distance, but he is about to realize that the only safe place left is in her arms.

Marriage of Convenience, Wallflower Heroine, Tortured Hero, Gaslighting Plot, Regency Mystery, Partners in Crime, Slow-Burn Romance.