

I was dazzled.” - Lisa Kleypas for Powell’s “Lisa Kleypas Recommends” column- Forever Your Earl “Every now and then, you discover a new (or at least, new-to-you) author who leaves you a little sunstruck.

“there’s just something about the way structures her plots that slips under my skin and gets my mental wheels turning every time.” - Seattle Review of Books *One of Oprah Magazine's Best Historical Romances to Read* Yet when he’s faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future-and his heart. Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. If only she hadn’t asked him to help her marry someone else. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Grace’s feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. To further his own research on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing-albeit fake-rake. Grace’s colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. Her solution: to “build” the perfect man, who will court her publicly and help her catch his eye. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. Meet the Union of the Rakes-a new Regency romance series inspired by the Breakfast Club and other classic 80s films! In the first book, a bluestocking enlists a faux suitor to help her land an ideal husband only to be blindsided by real desire… “A jolt of electricity, a blast of fresh air-everything delightful and exciting you could want it to be.” - The New York Times Book Review " feast of female empowerment, positive friendships, feel-good moments, and social satire." - NPR
