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A Collaborative Series
A Society of Scandal
A multi-author collaboration aiming to highlight the joy of reading historical romance and escaping to the past in this wondrous genre whilst cherishing openness, inclusivity, and equality. Each of these nine standalone novellas will have you clutching your pearls and reaching for your fan.
A Scandal in White
by Amber Night
The spectre of a looming wedding. The blooming of a fragile bond.
Lady Lydia Cavendish did not expect her recently departed father to leave her everything. Yet what seems a miracle, offering freedom from her controlling brother Rupert’s whims, soon turns into a stranglehold. Because there’s one condition: she must get married first, with Rupert’s consent. And quickly, if Thornleigh Hall is to outlast its debts. As heiress, the responsibility for the estate rests heavy on her shoulders.
Assistant to the groundskeeper, Thomas Brooks, keeps to himself. More tolerated than accepted by the other staff, a life of tending flowers has been enough since his beloved sister departed for a brighter future in London. When he stumbles across an injured, distraught Lydia in the twilit forest, his only impulse is to help.
What begins as a chance meeting soon blooms into a delicate connection. As Lydia repays Thomas’s kindness by reading him his sister’s letters, something quiet grows in the stolen hours. But her impending nuptials to Rupert’s best friend loom large. Soon, both of them are caught inside a tangled and conflicted net. Between duty and attraction, safety and freedom, which will win out?
And is it truly worth risking it all for love?
August 18, 2026
Hers by Summer's End
by Kat Sterling
A boxer no proper lady should ever root for…
Drew Sutton has built his reputation with quick fists, quicker smiles, and enough knockouts to keep all of Seattle talking. But while society dismisses him as a rough-edged pugilist, Drew’s true talent lies far from the ring—in cultivating prize-winning blooms. His foremost contender? A loud-mouthed spinster with wild curls and a grin that never fails to send his pulse racing. Their rivalry has always been good sport—until he unthinkingly transforms their private feud into the scandal of the summer. Now it’s war over dahlias, but Drew can’t shake the feeling that the only thing worth winning has nothing to do with horticulture.
A spinster determined to leave him flat on the canvas…
Cecelia Townsend has cultivated her battle with Drew Sutton as carefully as her prize dahlias. There’s something delicious about the man who tends fragile shoots with bruised knuckles, and she’s long enjoyed their harmless flirtation. But when their rivalry becomes the city’s favorite spectator sport—complete with public sparring and brazen wagers—the stakes between them flare into something all too real. As the competition—and their chemistry—heats up, Cecelia becomes consumed by a far riskier ambition. Victory, and the Fighting Florist himself, will be hers by summer’s end.
August 25, 2026
The Widow Was Irresistible
by Britt Belle
When her son chases away her latest lover, Vivienne is furious. Desperate for a replacement, she brazenly approaches a handsome man on the street only to be astonished when he proceeds on his way without succumbing to her charms. Unwilling to accept defeat, she arrives on his doorstep the next evening intending to seduce.
Charles can scarcely believe his eyes when the gorgeous widow he barely resisted sheds her cloak in his entryway and requests to be ravished. Unable to resist her lure a second time, he leads her to his study and gives her exactly what she desires. The passion between them is indescribable and as their affair extends, he cannot help wanting more.
Can a temporary affair between a widowed countess and a commoner evolve into a love match?
September 1, 2026
Secrets for a Seductress
by Laura Linn
An uncompromising man
Samuel Evans, Principal Officer for Bow Street, carves order from anarchy in London’s violent slums. He has neither the time nor inclination for self-indulgent drivel, and he certainly will not yield to the lust that dogs him every time he sets eyes on Anna Briggs. The madam of the city’s most infamous brothel, she is the very personification of sin—a drop hemlock in every spoonful of honey. She barters secrets as readily as she does her body, and it’s those secrets alone that draw him to her door.
A notorious courtesan
Anna refuses to apologize for who or what she is. She hasn’t reached these insurmountable heights by following the rules, and there’s no reason to start now. Besides, the men who preach morality rarely practice it, and those who do are too busy congratulating themselves to notice the futility of their modest contributions. Worse still, their decency is laced with judgment. Nevertheless, Anna cannot help teasing the strait-laced Bow Street runner who repeatedly comes sniffing at her door, delighting in the tension that gathers through his broad shoulders whenever she steps too close.
A seductive entanglement
When a regular at The Silken Lotus turns up dead, desperation and opportunity collide, bringing the unlikely pair together. What begins as a tenuous alliance soon becomes something far more dangerous, as the lies they each rely upon to carry them through the day begin to unravel in the shadows of the night. Caught between moral certainty and necessary deception, two people on opposite sides of order discover that the truth is seldom simple and often perilous.
September 8, 2026
A Divorcee & Her Captain
by Steffy Smith
Edith Whitmore, Countess of Kipton is drowning in her loveless marriage. Her husband is a cruel cold philanderer. Accepting he will never change and even more importantly that she will never forgive him she seeks a divorce-an uncommon occurrence for a female of her rank and her family refuse to support her. Edith is an emotional wreck, desperate and daring she needs to escape. Her last outburst resulted in her husband uttering the idle threat of Hanwell Asylum.
Captain Charles Barton grew up next door to Edith Whitmore, then the only daughter of a duke. They shared a privileged upbringing, Edie being prepared for prestigious marriage and Charles, a second son, a distinguished career in the navy. Charles never dared reveal his true feelings for her, knowing their union was impossible and harboured his burning flame from afar, oceans apart helping to dull the ache of disappointment she would never be his.
Docked in London and visiting his parents, the last thing he could ever imagine was Edie bounding through the shared door, desolate and frantic to escape her marriage. Charles hated to leave her in this state but he had a duty to the Royal Navy, how could he explain this? And he had no solution for her. Her mere utterance of the word divorce would set off a scandalous chain of events her family and husband would never allow. But Charles knew he had to think of something, he would never forgive himself if he turned his back on her. Before Charles even has a chance to consider how he could help, Edie take’s their destiny into her own hands and leaves him no choice.
September 15, 2026
Scandal with a Viscount
by Christina Diane
A charming viscount. His best friend's untouchable sister. One reckless wager at a house party that changes everything.
Lady Georgiana Whitmore has spent six Seasons refusing every suitor the ton throws at her. No one knows why—not her matchmaking mother, not her overprotective brother, and certainly not the rake who has occupied her fantasies for years. A man broke her trust at eighteen, and she swore no one would get that close again. But when a house party wager puts her in dangerous proximity to Viscount Ashworth for a fortnight, she decides to take what she wants—his body, not his heart.
Louis Prescott, Viscount Ashworth, has perfected the art of never caring. His mother abandoned him at seven, and his father made sure the lesson stuck: love is a fool's wager, and Louis never loses. Women come and go. When his best friend asks him to look after Georgie during a house party, Louis agrees without a second thought—until she climbs into his lap and dismantles every wall he's spent a lifetime building.
Their secret arrangement was supposed to end when the fortnight did. No feelings. No complications. But when the man who shattered Georgie at eighteen arrives among the guests—threatening to ruin her or prey on another innocent—Louis discovers that protecting his best friend's sister means risking the one thing he swore he'd never feel.
Now the only thing more dangerous than their secret is the love neither of them planned for—because once her brother finds out, there will be hell to pay.
September 22, 2026
Once Upon a Scandalous Night
by Jane Maguire
A scandalous lady
Born beneath the scandal of illegitimacy, Miss Anna Prescott strives to live a life beyond reproach. All until a single night of recklessness leads her to kiss a masked stranger at a masquerade—only to have the act witnessed and then immortalized in London’s gossip rags. When the stranger is revealed to be a notorious and reclusive duke, Anna sees only one way to preserve the tattered remnants of her reputation: claim the man as her betrothed.
A disreputable duke
Jasper Draycott, Duke of Thornhaven, has retreated from society ever since his older brother’s death, desperate to escape rumors that blame him for the tragedy. After an ill-conceived encounter at a masquerade, the last thing he wants is renewed scrutiny. Yet when Anna Prescott shows up at his door proposing a fake engagement, he finds the incorrigible—and intriguing—woman impossible to refuse.
A ruse that leads to the sweetest temptation
The betrothal is meant to be temporary, quietly ending once the gossip fades. But when Anna becomes stranded at the duke’s secluded home, the intimacy of their shared time fans the flames of a growing attraction. Before long, pretense evolves into something all too real, but can their hastily contrived union endure the pressures of the world beyond their walls? With the threat of discovery looming, Jasper and Anna must choose whether to end the charade as planned—or to risk everything for a love that could either redeem them both or ruin them entirely.
September 29, 2026
And Scandal Makes Three
by Sylvie Sinclair
Lady Rowen Buxley has always been the sensible one. Logical. Cool-headed. Unerringly responsible. Until a silver-tongued rake talks his way beneath her skirts, plying her with promises of love and marriage that leave her ruined...and pregnant with his child. When the blackguard refuses to marry her, Rowen is left with two choices: either find a new man to take his place or risk total ruination as an unwed mother. The answer is clear. She must find a husband and she must find one fast, for the sake of her reputation, her siblings, and her unborn child's future. But where will she ever find a gentleman willing to give her his name—a woman carrying another man's child?
Gabriel Desmond, the Earl of Ainsley, has desired Rowen Buxley from the first moment he met her. But, as she is his good friend's younger sister, he never dared make his regard known, for any man of honor knows that is a line one must never cross. He never dreams he'll have a chance to win Rowen's hand, but his luck takes a turn when he learns she is with child, and that the bounder responsible for seducing her is none other than Gabriel's own cousin. Never one to pass up a golden opportunity, Gabriel offers to marry her himself under the pretense of restoring honor to his family name and, miraculously, Rowen agrees.
She needs his name. He wants her heart. But can this marriage based on duty and necessity somehow become a love to last a lifetime?
October 6, 2026
Spirits and Scandals
by Ginny B. Moore
He doesn't believe in spirits. She doesn't believe in love. The ghosts are about to prove both of them wrong.
Phineas Cavendish, Earl of Valebrook, refuses to be fooled by another charlatan. Four years a widower with no patience for grief or grifters, he arrives at the haunted Ashveil Manor with one goal—expose the famous medium within as a fraud.
Bridget Murphy doesn't have her grandmother's otherworldly gift. What she has is a quick wit and an elaborate system of tricks—none of which she’s proud of, but all of which have kept the family business running while her celebrity grandmother tours the country.
Then a storm washes out the road, trapping her in the house with the most infuriatingly handsome skeptic she’s ever met.
Bridget is prepared to keep up the ruse, but when the candles begin to extinguish themselves and objects move without explanation, her parlor tricks become unnecessary. And whatever is haunting them seems far more interested in pushing Phineas and Bridget together—repeatedly, inconveniently, and in increasingly compromising positions.
Not everything that goes bump in the night is trying to frighten you. Some spirits are simply trying to help.
October 13, 2026
