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Brushed By Scandal
WHAT WILL SHE RISK FOR LOVE? Lady Annabelle Durst may be beautiful, but at four-and-twenty she’s firmly – and contentedly! – on the shelf. She’s learnt there’s nothing more important than protecting her heart against the perils of love. Then Anna’s family is embroiled in the scandal of the season, with only Sir Barrington Parker to turn to. He has a reputation for exposing society’s most disreputable secrets, and to save her family’s honour oh, so sensible Anna will do anything – even risk her reputation – to persuade this dangerous man to help…
307 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2011
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About the author
Gail Whitiker
61 books16 followersGail makes her home on the beautiful west coast of Canada, where she’s happy to say umbrellas outnumber snow shovels. Originally hailing from Wales, she says her fascination with the Regency period began during frequent trips back to visit family and friends when Sunday afternoon drives would inevitably lead to a castle, a cathedral, or a country house hotel (where she also discovered an unfortunate fondness for Devonshire cream teas and sticky toffee pudding).
She has written over twenty historical and paranormal romances and thinks the idea of writing a novel while sipping wine in Tuscany would have to be about as good as it gets!
She has written over twenty historical and paranormal romances and thinks the idea of writing a novel while sipping wine in Tuscany would have to be about as good as it gets!
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
February 29, 2012
I really wonder if the people who write the blurbs for these books even read the books. However this book was really good if not a little annoying with how slow the characters seem to be and with a very cheesy ending.
April 27, 2020
Great recency romance and mystery
Great hero and heroine, a mystery and all set in recency society with the deft hand of a excellent author. During our recent virus lockdown I've been trying to read some decent recency romances but these days it's so hard to find a quality read. I was so desperate to sit and become immersed in a story that had more than a woman in a satin crinoline (not even regency!) cavorting with a Duke on the cover of the book to it that I went back to the M&B 'Steepwood Scandal' series' authors to see what they had done since 2001. I was not disappointed by Sir Barrington (a mere baronet yet brainy and hot) and feisty Lady Annabelle who cannot help but interfere. 5 stars!!
Great hero and heroine, a mystery and all set in recency society with the deft hand of a excellent author. During our recent virus lockdown I've been trying to read some decent recency romances but these days it's so hard to find a quality read. I was so desperate to sit and become immersed in a story that had more than a woman in a satin crinoline (not even regency!) cavorting with a Duke on the cover of the book to it that I went back to the M&B 'Steepwood Scandal' series' authors to see what they had done since 2001. I was not disappointed by Sir Barrington (a mere baronet yet brainy and hot) and feisty Lady Annabelle who cannot help but interfere. 5 stars!!
June 28, 2023
i was in my historical romance era as one is during a spiral and looking for something easy and fun to sink into and what got me was how dark the themes ran in the background of the tame af romance. a woman was literally trapped into sexual slavery!?! a cougar was running around high society? the rich and entitled were feasting on the poor every sec of the story. and so so. SO MUCH cheating. which was such a sharp contrast to whatever was going on between our vanilla af leads. came for the cheesy romance, stayed for the convoluted mystery and sabotage happening in the back.
January 27, 2025
An ok read but not amazing. Little slow and stodgy getting going and the characters are not particularly well developed.
Storyline was a tad boring .. there was the man who has sworn never to wed and the independent woman who wants the right man going on but it didn’t quite work for me. No excitement waiting to turn the next page, more a soldier on to the end of the book. The villain of the piece is easily identified so twist in the tail here.
Storyline was a tad boring .. there was the man who has sworn never to wed and the independent woman who wants the right man going on but it didn’t quite work for me. No excitement waiting to turn the next page, more a soldier on to the end of the book. The villain of the piece is easily identified so twist in the tail here.
February 21, 2021
Found this a bit annoying with single lady calling on single gentleman, member of Ton putting milk in before the Tea (no, no no! You only did that if your tea things were too poor quality to stand the boiling water!) and the villain seemed so obvious I couldn't understand why everyone seemed so oblivious! Also said villain seemed to just give in and slink off at the end.
July 1, 2024
Enjoyable read, but rather slow, and overlong. The plot was rather predictable… it was obvious from very early on who the perpetrator was, and how the crime was carried out
May 17, 2012
I've come to admire Parker a lot through out this book, and enjoyed every moment as pieces of the mystery together. Anna was annoying at first but seemed to be interesting as the book began to draw to a close. The answer to the to mystery was so obvious that it seemed that some of the remaining characters were blinded, until the end. It was also slow paced too.
February 3, 2012
This was a fairly good book. The writing was restrained and well crafted, but the plot was predictable and not very inspiring. All in all an okay read. Better than some I've read, but nothing worth making a big noise about.
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