“Jane! You cannot be serious,” I hissed, though I felt a strange heat at the thought. “To lay with one man outside of wedlock is scandalous enough, but to invite a multitude? I am a widow of but two days!”

Lady Charlotte, widowed at nineteen, faces certain poverty unless her late lord husband has left a parting gift in her belly. The only problem? He hadn’t visited her bedchamber for over a month.

With the family estate under threat and the next-of-kin circling, Charlotte needs a...
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