A Postscript to Scandal

He once made her heartbreak a public joke. Now she needs his words—and someone is determined to make her a scandal again. Juliana Hensleigh is the family beauty. Bath has never let her forget the foolish letter she wrote to her music master at fifteen—or the clever young poet who turned it into verse for everyone's amusement. By the summer of 1819, she has a respectable Bristol suitor and music of her own to compose for the galas. She is ready to give the city something better to talk about. There is only one difficulty. Her songs need words. And the man who can write them is Aurelian Devereux. Thin, charming, and twelve hundred pounds in debt, the satirist who humiliated her is hardly the collaborator Juliana would choose. Her aunt's advice is perfectly practical: hire him, pay him, and owe him nothing. Keeping the arrangement strictly professional ought to be simple. Remembering his cruelty certainly is. Accounting for his charm is another matter. Then copies of Juliana's old letter begin appearing in the supper boxes. Her private humiliation is public entertainment once more, and Bath knows exactly whom to blame. Working with Aurelian has already cost Juliana her peace of mind. Trusting him could cost her reputation—and the respectable future she has so carefully rebuilt. But before she condemns him, she must discover who is circulating the letter, and why they want it read again now. This time, Juliana has no intention of letting someone else have the last word. A Postscript to Scandal is Book Five of The Ladies of the Lion's Mouth series—a witty, tender Regency romance of musical collaboration, wounded pride, and the unsettling possibility of falling for the man one has every reason to dislike. A clean and wholesome romance with a gentle mystery, kisses only, no explicit content, no profanity, and a happy ending guaranteed.