A House Party Scandal In Mayfair
(2025)(The fifth book in the Hearts of the Scandal Season series)
A novel by Eva Lyndale
She planned the perfect house party to save her family’s reputation. A thief planned to ruin it.
Rosalind Templeton is the perfect hostess: composed, elegant, and entirely in control. Her seaside house party at Saltleigh is meant to be the triumph of the Season, complete with a matchmaking wager to entertain her high-society guests. But when a Duchess’s priceless diamond necklace vanishes from a locked room, Rosalind’s carefully orchestrated world begins to crumble. Facing social ruin and a scandal that could destroy her brother’s estate, she needs help—but the only man noticing the cracks in her armor is the one guest she never intended to trust.
A scoundrel with a sharp eye. Nicholas Brooke knows what it is to be the subject of a scandal sheet. Burdened by debt and a checkered past, he came to Saltleigh to keep his head down. But he possesses a talent for seeing what others miss. When he finds Rosalind investigating a bar of soap marked with the impression of a stolen key, he realizes the hostess isn't just arranging flowers—she’s hunting a criminal.
A storm that traps them together. As a violent gale batters the coast, trapping the party indoors, the thief strikes again. Forced to shelter together in a crumbling garden folly, Rosalind and Nicholas forge a desperate alliance. Amidst wind, rain, and candlelight, they devise a daring plan: a riddle-based scavenger hunt designed to flush out the culprit.
But as they unravel a web of citrus-scented clues and shadowed corridors, the line between their investigation and their hearts begins to blur. Nicholas promised to help Rosalind catch a thief, but he’s in danger of stealing the one thing she swore never to give away.
Themes: House Party Mystery, Forced Proximity (Storm), Partners in Crime, Class Difference, Intelligent Heroine, Reformed Rake, Regency Romance.
Genre: Historical Romance
Rosalind Templeton is the perfect hostess: composed, elegant, and entirely in control. Her seaside house party at Saltleigh is meant to be the triumph of the Season, complete with a matchmaking wager to entertain her high-society guests. But when a Duchess’s priceless diamond necklace vanishes from a locked room, Rosalind’s carefully orchestrated world begins to crumble. Facing social ruin and a scandal that could destroy her brother’s estate, she needs help—but the only man noticing the cracks in her armor is the one guest she never intended to trust.
A scoundrel with a sharp eye. Nicholas Brooke knows what it is to be the subject of a scandal sheet. Burdened by debt and a checkered past, he came to Saltleigh to keep his head down. But he possesses a talent for seeing what others miss. When he finds Rosalind investigating a bar of soap marked with the impression of a stolen key, he realizes the hostess isn't just arranging flowers—she’s hunting a criminal.
A storm that traps them together. As a violent gale batters the coast, trapping the party indoors, the thief strikes again. Forced to shelter together in a crumbling garden folly, Rosalind and Nicholas forge a desperate alliance. Amidst wind, rain, and candlelight, they devise a daring plan: a riddle-based scavenger hunt designed to flush out the culprit.
But as they unravel a web of citrus-scented clues and shadowed corridors, the line between their investigation and their hearts begins to blur. Nicholas promised to help Rosalind catch a thief, but he’s in danger of stealing the one thing she swore never to give away.
Themes: House Party Mystery, Forced Proximity (Storm), Partners in Crime, Class Difference, Intelligent Heroine, Reformed Rake, Regency Romance.
Genre: Historical Romance
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