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Arabella Knightley might be an earlâs granddaughter, but behind her back sheâs known as Miss Smell oâ Gutters. All she can do is endure Londonâs barbs âĶ and dispense a little justice on the side.
Adam St. Just is one of Englandâs most eligible bachelors, but his sisterâs first Season is teetering perilously close to disaster. Worse, his sister has struck up a friendship with Miss Knightley, the young lady whose prospects he inadvertently destroyed when he said she smelled of the gutters.
When Londonâs altruistic thief comes to his sisterâs aid, Adam sets out to uncover the rogueâs identity âĶ but what he discovers will turn his life upside down.
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An entertaining, emotional, and heartwarming Regency romance from award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Emily Larkin.
Finalist in the Booksellers Best, National Readersâ Choice, and Australian Romantic Book of the Year awards.
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Length: A full-length Regency romance of 83,000 words
Heat level: This book contains mildly sensual love scenes
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If you love page-turning historical romances brimming with emotion, humor, and captivating characters, then this is the novel for you!
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Emily Larkin is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling âsexy, unusual and vastly entertaining,â and "ridiculously wonderful."
When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hikingâpreferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye.
Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has won multiple awards in New Zealand and Australia and has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, as well as the National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards.