The Spinster's Secret - Emily Larkin

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Résumé :
Matilda Chapple is penniless, orphaned, and dependent on her uncle's grim charity-but she's found a way to escape: she'll write her way to financial freedom.



When Mattie pens a series of titillating short stories, she starts earning money ... and notoriety. Her secret is safe-until Waterloo veteran, Edward Kane, agrees to uncover the anonymous author's identity.



Can Mattie conceal the secret of her scandalous writings, or will Edward discover that the virginal spinster and the risqu? authoress are one and the same person?



A Regency romance with a battle-scarred hero, an enterprising heroine, a gothic backdrop, and some of the worst food in England.

Biographie:
Emily Larkin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining, and ridiculously wonderful.

When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking, preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye.

Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards, and has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year and New Zealand Romance of the Year awards.