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Curves for the Sinful Viscount
(2027)(A book in the Busty Bodice Club series)
A novel by Cathy Maxwell
Owen Ashwell, the newly named Viscount Coley, has crossed swords with French hussars and charged into cannon fire. He can outdrink, outshoot, and outride any Corinthian. He is a renown lover and women fight for a night in his bed.
However, there is one thing Owen cannot do--and that is read.
His tutors had claimed he was unteachable. His father’s solution was to pack him off into the military. The world might never have known Owen’s humiliating secret--except for a title he had never expected being passed down to him. And one thing tradition demands of every Viscount Coley is to read aloud a treatise written by their ancestor in front of the whole of the Royal Society. Owen knows once the ton hears him stumble over words, they will laugh.
Governess Petra Fernside dreams of establishing a school for young women. Unfortunately, because of her youth and buxom beauty, she has been chased around the schoolroom more than once by lecherous fathers. Usually she can fob them off but this last time, the man caught her just as his wife walked in. Petra is given the sack with no place to go save the Poor House.
And then a duchess presents Petra with a challenge: if she teaches Viscount Coley to read, the duchess promises to fund Petra’s school.
Petra has heard of the ‘Sinful Viscount.’ But how hard can it be to teach a grown man to read? Especially in exchange for her school?
The truth? It is a herculean challenge when that man is Owen.
She finds him impulsive and proud. He finds her humorless and grumpy. But neither can deny sparks fly between them. And the question becomes, who will kill—or kiss—the other first?
Enemies to Lovers
Opposites attract
Tempting the Rake
Wooing the Governess
Grumpy/Sunshine
Genre: Historical Romance
However, there is one thing Owen cannot do--and that is read.
His tutors had claimed he was unteachable. His father’s solution was to pack him off into the military. The world might never have known Owen’s humiliating secret--except for a title he had never expected being passed down to him. And one thing tradition demands of every Viscount Coley is to read aloud a treatise written by their ancestor in front of the whole of the Royal Society. Owen knows once the ton hears him stumble over words, they will laugh.
Governess Petra Fernside dreams of establishing a school for young women. Unfortunately, because of her youth and buxom beauty, she has been chased around the schoolroom more than once by lecherous fathers. Usually she can fob them off but this last time, the man caught her just as his wife walked in. Petra is given the sack with no place to go save the Poor House.
And then a duchess presents Petra with a challenge: if she teaches Viscount Coley to read, the duchess promises to fund Petra’s school.
Petra has heard of the ‘Sinful Viscount.’ But how hard can it be to teach a grown man to read? Especially in exchange for her school?
The truth? It is a herculean challenge when that man is Owen.
She finds him impulsive and proud. He finds her humorless and grumpy. But neither can deny sparks fly between them. And the question becomes, who will kill—or kiss—the other first?
Enemies to Lovers
Opposites attract
Tempting the Rake
Wooing the Governess
Grumpy/Sunshine
Genre: Historical Romance
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