The Rake's Counterfeit Courtship
(2026)(The second book in the Reformed Rakes of Mayfair series)
A novel by Daphne Bloom
A rake with a secret. A cartographer with a secret of her own. And a courtship neither of them meant to make real.
Harriet Wren has no interest in rakes, viscounts, or marriage. She has an atlas to finish, a professional reputation carefully hidden behind the name H. Wren, and eight years of work that could disappear the moment the wrong men discover that the respected cartographer they've been corresponding with is a woman.
Then Sebastian Carew walks into her library.
Lord Dunmore needs a harmless explanation for a visit to Bath he cannot afford to explain. Harriet provides one. Unfortunately, Bath notices. Soon one innocent lie has become gossip, public dances, carefully managed appearances—and something that looks remarkably like a courtship.
Sebastian has spent years being exactly what society expects: charming, careless, and constitutionally incapable of finishing an engagement. It is easier than admitting the truth. His father's betrayals left damage Sebastian is still discovering, and he has no intention of becoming the kind of husband the late Lord Dunmore was.
Harriet, however, has an inconvenient habit of noticing what other people miss.
As their counterfeit courtship gives way to map rooms, midnight conversations, and a dangerous amount of honesty, Sebastian begins to wonder whether avoiding his father's mistakes has kept him from making any choices of his own. And Harriet must decide whether loving a man necessarily means surrendering the life—and the name—she fought so hard to build.
The courtship may have begun as a fiction.
Unfortunately, the love is becoming considerably harder to dispute.
The Rake's Counterfeit Courtship is a slow-burn Regency romance about inheritance, identity, and two people discovering that the life handed down to them is not necessarily the one they have to choose.
''''️🌶️ Heat level: Slow burn, fade-to-black. All the tension, none of the explicit.
Genre: Historical Romance
Harriet Wren has no interest in rakes, viscounts, or marriage. She has an atlas to finish, a professional reputation carefully hidden behind the name H. Wren, and eight years of work that could disappear the moment the wrong men discover that the respected cartographer they've been corresponding with is a woman.
Then Sebastian Carew walks into her library.
Lord Dunmore needs a harmless explanation for a visit to Bath he cannot afford to explain. Harriet provides one. Unfortunately, Bath notices. Soon one innocent lie has become gossip, public dances, carefully managed appearances—and something that looks remarkably like a courtship.
Sebastian has spent years being exactly what society expects: charming, careless, and constitutionally incapable of finishing an engagement. It is easier than admitting the truth. His father's betrayals left damage Sebastian is still discovering, and he has no intention of becoming the kind of husband the late Lord Dunmore was.
Harriet, however, has an inconvenient habit of noticing what other people miss.
As their counterfeit courtship gives way to map rooms, midnight conversations, and a dangerous amount of honesty, Sebastian begins to wonder whether avoiding his father's mistakes has kept him from making any choices of his own. And Harriet must decide whether loving a man necessarily means surrendering the life—and the name—she fought so hard to build.
The courtship may have begun as a fiction.
Unfortunately, the love is becoming considerably harder to dispute.
The Rake's Counterfeit Courtship is a slow-burn Regency romance about inheritance, identity, and two people discovering that the life handed down to them is not necessarily the one they have to choose.
''''️🌶️ Heat level: Slow burn, fade-to-black. All the tension, none of the explicit.
Genre: Historical Romance
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