The Spinster's Secret - Larkin, Emily

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Résumé :
A resourceful spinster, a battle-scarred officer, a scandalous secret ... and some of the worst food in England! Matilda Chapple is orphaned, penniless, and dependent on her uncle's meager charity-but she's finally found a way to earn her livelihood. With the help of an old diary and a lurid novel she'll write her way to financial independence! When Mattie pens a series of racy short stories, she starts earning money ... and notoriety. Her secret is safe-until battle-scarred 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 respectable spinster and the risqu? authoress are one and the same person? A sensual and deeply emotional Regency romance from award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Emily Larkin. Length: A full-length novel of 71,000 words Heat level: A Regency romance with steamy love scenes If you love richly detailed historical romances brimming with passion, humor, emotion, and compelling characters, then this is the novel for you! (The Spinster's Secret is the second book in the Midnight Quill Trio, but may be read as a standalone.)...

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.

Sommaire:
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....