Lady Phoebe Darlington’s life as she knows it is over. Impoverished and desperate, she has been forced to take up employment as a shop girl, which is humiliating enough. But when she and her mother are thrown out of their boarding house, she may have no choice but to live on the streets.Until a chance encounter at a pub on a rainy day changes her life forever.Danny Long is proud of his … proud of his lower-class upbringing and his street smarts. He is loud, rude, and a heck of a lot of fun to be around. He is also secretly one of the wealthiest men in London. When Phoebe seeks shelter in his pub, he knows in a flash that he will do everything he can to make her his, no matter how scandalous, including offering her and her mother a flat in one of his buildings…for a particular price.
But what begins as mischief turns serious when a villain from Phoebe’s past resurfaces with nefarious intentions. Danny must rise to the challenge of being Phoebe’s knight in shining armor, but Phoebe may end up being the one who saves him.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam level – very spicy!
THE MAY FLOWERS series is a continuation of THE SILVER FOXES OF WESTMINSTER series, involving the younger generation. It consists of:
A LADY’S FIRST SCANDAL
IT’S ONLY A SCANDAL IF YOU’RE CAUGHT
THE SCANDAL OF A PERFECT KISS
THE EARL’S SCANDALOUS BARGAIN
WHEN LADY INNOCENCE MET DR. SCANDALOUS
THE ROAD TO SCANDAL IS PAVED WITH WICKED INTENTIONS
SCANDAL MEETS ITS MATCH
‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE SCANDAL
HOW TO AVOID A SCANDAL (OR NOT)
more
The Road to Scandal is Paved with Wicked Intentions
Merry Farmer
Lady Phoebe and her mother are poor. Living in a boardinghouse. Phoebe works as a sales girl in Harrods selling Ladies gloves. She is a daughter of the late marquess. Her father was always doing horrible things, sleeping with many women. Gambling, running debts up.
She an her mother are always being snubbed.
Danny’s a wealthy man, he owns a bar called the Watchman.
He is doing business when Phoebe comes stumbling in from the rain on her way home. He flirts with her, and everything changes when she gets told to move from the house she is stay in.
Definitely a great story. I enjoyed reading this book. Must warn you though there is adult content and situations not for the faint hearted.
My disclaimer…
I was given a copy of this book for my honest review.
Any book or novels I leave reviews on are not dependent on the book/novel review author’s opinion. No one influenced my voluntary review for any of the books or novels I read, they are my own opinions.
Wow, this series has some great books in it, some of my favorite Merry books in fact, but this story is over the top delicious and heartwarming. Phoebe and Danny make a lovely couple and they make it hard to stop reading. I love when a story brings class into play. New money versus old titles. The new money is invariably way more fun and outrageous and in tune with reality. I don’t know, Danny could be my next book boyfriend.
I received a complimentary copy from the author.
This story was such a delight to read and I got a real kick out of Danny’s character! He’s loud and brash but with a heart of gold. This is Danny and Phoebe’s story and you can’t help but cheer them on as they find their way to their HEA.
Their characters are so very different….Phoebe comes from an upper crust background while Danny is from the lower class. She has now fallen on hard times after her father’s death and his leaving behind insurmountable debt while it’s a little known fact that Danny has more money than any of the upper class nobs! He doesn’t care at all about the upper class and it’s not long before Phoebe realizes she would never want to belong to that class any longer, not after seeing the way Danny is treated by them. The story involves a would be suitor who would stop at nothing to marry Phoebe, a great real estate deal, a secret and a sizzling romance!
I received an ARC of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.