Gentleman's Guide to Courtship

"Every once in a while you find the perfect combination of thrill, sizzle and laughs, and this was it!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Hotel Hades seeks pretend Persephone; ladies need not apply.Lady Isabella Merriweather hoards gossip like dragon's gold, especially now that her brother's happiness is at stake. She'll do anything to ensure he marries the right woman, even donning a maid's uniform and challenging a mysterious hotelier who wants her to be his wife.Rowan Trent needs a pretend bride, not a real one. That would require him to join society, and he'd rather not. Especially when he's busy buying a new inn, a deal in danger when the owner refuses to sell to a bachelor. Rowan must marry, but why do that when he can simply hire help? He knows the perfect woman for the job-beautiful and cunning and no maid at all.She needs the gossip streaming though his hotel halls. And he needs a beautiful pretender. A tenuous partnership, a fake marriage, and a searing attraction both real and inconvenient. They'll need each other to regain control of their lives, but they risk losing their hearts.

The duke must take a wife.But he'd rather kiss a Scottish matchmaker.The Duke of Clearford would like to marry for love, but his family's secret erotic lending library makes that impossible. If the library is discovered, his wife would be ruined. But if he marries a member of the library, someone already courting scandal, he won't have to risk an innocent's reputation. He's determined to do just that. Until he meets Lady Emma Blackwood-beautiful, intelligent, and entirely off limits.Chased out of Edinburgh by her enraged father and a scandal she did not cause, Lady Emma is determined to restart her matchmaking practice in London with a prestigious client-the insufferable Duke of Clearford. He's handsome, attentive, a bit brooding, and thinks he knows everything about courtship.Her reputation can't survive it…His morals won't allow it…Yet attraction, unexpected and consuming, threatens to their loyalty to duty and obligation. But disappearing sisters, a race to Scotland, and one room at an inn force them to question how much they're willing to sacrifice before giving in to the demands of their hearts.