To ease her father's worries for her future, Grace agrees to look for a husband and sets her sights on Mason Fredericks, a naturalist and son of a viscount. Together they attend scientific discussions, study at the library, and visit museums. Sebastian Holloway and Grace Wyatt are the perfect colleagues he's a brilliant anthropologist dedicated to the study of courtship rituals, and she's content as a wallflower pursuing her life's passion of studying reptiles. Sebastian Holloway and Grace Wyatt are the perfect colleagues he's a brilliant anthropologist dedicated to the study of courtship rituals, and she's cont. A resourceful, forthright heroine intent on living life on her own terms and a duty-bound hero give in to love and breath-taking passion in a story so lyrically written that parts of it read like poetry. Tristan Hardy to her door, and she has no idea that the far too attractive sea captain she has just rented a room to is eying her and her staff with suspicion.

But there is more to her husband's past than she knows. Left destitute by her debt-ridden husband's death save for a derelict building on the London docks, Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, sees hope and independence under the dust and grime and, with the aid of her late husband's mistress (a quirky turn of events), sets about transforming the former Palace of Rogues into a respectable boarding house, the Grand Palace on the Thames.

Left destitute by her debt-ridden husband's death save for a derelict building on the London docks, Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, sees hope and i.

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