Author Stacy Reid spins a marvelous tale. The delight of any book is in the details and this novel is totally delightful. There is much more entertaining detail, but this is just the basic. She asked for the bucket of critters and he disappeared for a moment and returned with a bucket of snakes, frogs… She had Crispin dump the critters into the ballroom through an open window just as Sophie came walking by. When he showed up at the place she was hiding, he acted a little different, but she thought that it was because he didn’t approve of what she was doing. They hoped the masks would help them not be recognized if anyone saw them. Several people had shown up wearing masks but took them off when her mother insisted. For this, she has enlisted the help of her brother Crispin, who would be wearing a golden mask as she wore a mask as well. At a ball at her mother’s home, Vanguard Hall, she intends to embarrass the wicked Sophie. She has watched as this young woman has tormented many others and is now out for a little revenge. Lady Maryann Elanor Fitzwilliam is a brilliant young woman of society, but a wickedly mean daughter of a duke, Sophie, has given her the distinction of wallflower because she wouldn’t follow her wicked instructions and be mean to others. I don’t do spoilers, but I can tell you the basic setup and what I found so wonderful about this novel.

Stacy Reid is a new author for me, but I will be reading much more of her work. Her Wicked Marquess is a historical romance and what a wonderful romance it is. Turns out Nicolas allows for the scandal to perpetuate for his own reasons… But when Maryann’s parents hold fast to their arranged marriage plan, it’ll take a scandal of epic proportions for these two to get out of this together.Įach book in the Sinful Wallflowers series is STANDALONE: Now she just needs to convince the marquess to keep his silence. She anonymously claims that the bedchamber belonged to none other than Miss Fitzwilliam, tarnishing her own reputation-and chances of the dastardly union her family secured for her.

Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury, climbing out the chamber windows of a house party, Maryann does the unthinkable. When the scandal sheet reports a sighting of Nicolas St. But Maryann is ready to use those wits to turn herself into a sinful wallflower. No gentleman of the ton will marry her, so her parents arrange for her to wed a man old enough to be her father.

Miss Maryann Fitzwilliam is too witty and bookish for her own good.

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