Dick Stone is Regency England’s hardest-working man.

Lord Edward Richard Stone — “Dick Stone” to scandalous society — is a marquess’s second son with scars from the Peninsular War, an empty purse, and a business curing the ton’s most delicate succession crises. When two foppish friends hire him to put a bride in the family way, Edward thinks it’s simple: seduce the lady, collect the fee.

But Lady Maria Mabbot is not merely innocent — she’s curious, eager, and far too in...
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