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Secrets of a Summer Night
Wallflower Quartet #1
375 pages
A glittering, swoon-worthy historical romance where fierce female friendship meets the delicious tension of a class-crossing, opposites-attract courtship.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into a glittering, gaslit ballroom where the stakes are desperately high but the banter remains razor-sharp. It balances the crushing anxiety of impending financial ruin with the warm, buoyant joy of finding true solidarity among fellow outcasts. The narrative moves at a brisk, engaging clip, propelled by the delicious friction between a prideful, impoverished aristocrat and a relentless, self-made industrialist. The prose is lush and deeply sensual, wrapping the reader in an atmosphere of rustling silk, summer gardens, and undeniable chemistry. It is a deeply comforting, swoon-worthy experience that will delight anyone who loves the golden-age historical romance tropes of fierce female friendships, class-crossing tension, and the slow, inevitable melt of pragmatism into passionate devotion.
- Mood
- opulent
- swoony
- warm
- intimate
- Tone
- witty
- romantic
- playful
- sensual
- earnest
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- class differences · female solidarity · financial desperation · the marriage mart · yielding to desire
- The writing
- Lush and accessible, balancing razor-sharp ballroom banter with deeply evocative, sensual descriptions.
- The arc
- Moves from desperate, prideful pragmatism to a vulnerable surrender to true partnership and passion.
- Who it's for
- Romance readers who crave the golden-age historical feel of glittering ballrooms, fierce female friendships, and the delicious tension of new money pursuing old blood.
Content notes
- financial ruin
- classism
- explicit sexual content
About the book
Wallflowers #1 Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband.So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born.Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle's most intriguing -- and persistent -- admirer, wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt, has made it clear that while he will introduce her to irresistible pleasure he will not offer marriage. Annabelle is determined to resist his unthinkable proposition... but it is impossible in the face of such skillful seduction. Her friends, looking to help, conspire to entice a more suitable gentleman to offer for Annabelle, for only then will she be safe from Simon -- and her own longings. But on one summer night, Annabelle succumbs to Simon's passionate embrace and tempting kisses... and she discovers that love is the most dangerous game of all.
Wallflowers Series: Again the Magic (Wallflowers, #0) Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1) It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2) Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3) Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers, #4) A Wallflower Christmas (Wallflowers, #4.5)
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