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The Mating Season
1815, London.
Scarlett Pond is eighteen at last. Her mating season has finally begun. And she knows exactly who her first suitor is going to be.
The Ton is in crisis. Every year, more marriages fail to produce an heir. Finding a good match has now become a matter of life or death for every noble in England. In desperation, a new form of courtship has been ordered by the King: the mating season.
The rules of the mating season:
• Suitors are allowed to court one eligible debutante each month.
• During that month, they have one job. To breed an heir.
• If they succeed in conception, a marriage takes place.
• If the mating trial is unsuccessful, the suitor must step back and allow another man to take his turn.
The mating season is full-on. Desperate. Shamelessly public. And if Louis Hay – the Duke of Somerset and Scarlett’s childhood sweetheart – fails to impregnate her, then in four weeks she will be free use for every eligible gentleman in London. One after another.
What a terrible, terrible shame.
Scarlett Pond is eighteen at last. Her mating season has finally begun. And she knows exactly who her first suitor is going to be.
The Ton is in crisis. Every year, more marriages fail to produce an heir. Finding a good match has now become a matter of life or death for every noble in England. In desperation, a new form of courtship has been ordered by the King: the mating season.
The rules of the mating season:
• Suitors are allowed to court one eligible debutante each month.
• During that month, they have one job. To breed an heir.
• If they succeed in conception, a marriage takes place.
• If the mating trial is unsuccessful, the suitor must step back and allow another man to take his turn.
The mating season is full-on. Desperate. Shamelessly public. And if Louis Hay – the Duke of Somerset and Scarlett’s childhood sweetheart – fails to impregnate her, then in four weeks she will be free use for every eligible gentleman in London. One after another.
What a terrible, terrible shame.
186 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 28, 2026
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