Entertaining the Earl

She has a fortune but no title. Or beauty. A plain-faced blue stockinged spinster, Miss Susannah Lyttleton would spend every waking minute reading if she could, much to her parents' despair. So when her father announces that the Earl of Bourne will be spending the Season with them, Susannah is not excited about the prospect. She imagines he'll be an old man with a receding hairline who hasn't got a clue how to behave now that he's unexpectedly inherited a grand title. So when the earl in question, Colin, is five-and-twenty and devastatingly handsome, she is rather taken aback. One night in Vauxhall Gardens, he asks Susannah a favor: to pretend to have an understanding with him, in order to ward off the prowling mamas and their marriage-minded daughters. Will the ton believe that the handsome Earl of Bourne has fallen in love with the bookish Miss Lyttleton? And when the earl realizes the pretense is becoming reality for him, will she believe him? Tropes you'll love:Plain/Bookish Heroine Handsome Newly Inherited Earl Marriage-Minded Mothers & Daughters Fake Courtship / Pretend Engagement Opposites Attract Wallflower to Desirable Match Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Vauxhall Gardens Encounter Falling in Love with the Ruse Vows in Vauxhall Gardens Book 1: The Lady of the Lamps Book 2: Entertaining the Earl Book 3: A Vow from a Viscount