When Lady Grace Tyneford attends a drawing class for debutantes, she and her friend Lady Isabelle Dumphries are hiding from their inattentive parents that the event includes a life model. A man. A naked man. Well, not quite naked – a gauzy black hood hides his face to protect model and artists from embarrassment.
During their Bath debut season, Isabelle has attracted attention from Lord Robert Charlton, but Grace has no obvious suitors, and denies to Isabelle that she views any of the eligible bachelors with particular favor.
Privately, however, she carries a torch for Henry Cavandish, Duke of Egremont. The problem is so do most of the girls. Whispered confessions of love at first sight abound, but Grace has kept her own counsel rather than appear to be part of a silly gaggle chasing the handsome, eligible, titled, and wealthy duke. She’d rather let him go than that.
It’s a pity too, because she and Cavandish are a little better acquainted than most. They’ve danced a couple of times, been seated together for dinner twice, and his conversation was quick and amusing. But that was all. Never has he shown her attention beyond the ordinary.
Henry Cavandish might be handsome, eligible, titled, and wealthy, but he must have been out of his mind when he accepted a wager with his friend Robert Charlton that he couldn’t possibly win. And he’d not even thought to ask what the forfeit would be if he lost.
Posed as Michelangelo’s David, peering out from behind a gauzy black mask, he stands naked before a room of young women who gaze avidly and sketch him. His view is hazy through the dark gauze, and he wonders if he knows any of them. One right in front certainly looks familiar – at least vaguely.
When he learns later she is Lady Grace Tyneford and best friends with Robert’s soon-to-be intended, Lady Isabelle Dumphries, he is mortified.
At least they can��t possibly know he and the nude life model were one and the same.
He hopes…
Genre: Historical Romance
During their Bath debut season, Isabelle has attracted attention from Lord Robert Charlton, but Grace has no obvious suitors, and denies to Isabelle that she views any of the eligible bachelors with particular favor.
Privately, however, she carries a torch for Henry Cavandish, Duke of Egremont. The problem is so do most of the girls. Whispered confessions of love at first sight abound, but Grace has kept her own counsel rather than appear to be part of a silly gaggle chasing the handsome, eligible, titled, and wealthy duke. She’d rather let him go than that.
It’s a pity too, because she and Cavandish are a little better acquainted than most. They’ve danced a couple of times, been seated together for dinner twice, and his conversation was quick and amusing. But that was all. Never has he shown her attention beyond the ordinary.
Henry Cavandish might be handsome, eligible, titled, and wealthy, but he must have been out of his mind when he accepted a wager with his friend Robert Charlton that he couldn’t possibly win. And he’d not even thought to ask what the forfeit would be if he lost.
Posed as Michelangelo’s David, peering out from behind a gauzy black mask, he stands naked before a room of young women who gaze avidly and sketch him. His view is hazy through the dark gauze, and he wonders if he knows any of them. One right in front certainly looks familiar – at least vaguely.
When he learns later she is Lady Grace Tyneford and best friends with Robert’s soon-to-be intended, Lady Isabelle Dumphries, he is mortified.
At least they can��t possibly know he and the nude life model were one and the same.
He hopes…
Genre: Historical Romance
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