Some Like it Scandalous

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Carole Mortimer. Some Like it Scandalous

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London, 1817

“You are suggesting that, now our year of mourning for our husbands has come to an end, we should all take at least one lover?”

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“Sophia,” he returned tauntingly.

Sophia raised her long dark lashes long enough to give him a reproving glance at his familiarity, and at once wished she had not, as she was instantly overwhelmed by the masculinity of the man’s rakish good looks. A handsomeness that had set many a female heart aflutter since this man had first made his appearance into Society on attaining his eighteenth year. Feminine hearts which had remained unsatisfied, as he easily and continuously managed to avoid being entrapped by both the marriage-minded mamas and their equally eager female offspring.

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