New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McQuiston continues her enchanting Seduction Diaries series like a bookish spinster and an unrepentant rogue unite to unmask a traitor

Every girl dreams of a hero .

Nobody loves books more than Miss Mary Channing. Maybe that’s why she’s reached the ripe later years of six-and-twenty without ever being kissed. Her future may be as bland as milk toast, but Mary can be content to basically dream of the heroes and journeys she reads about in her books. That about The Benefits of Caring a Scoundrel: The Seduction Diaries way she won’t end up with a villain rather.

But sometimes just a scoundrel will do.

When she unexpectedly finds herself in the arms of Geoffrey Westmore, London’s most notorious scoundrel, it feels a little such as a plot in one of her favorite novels. Suddenly, Mary understands why actually the smartest heroines can fall victim to a handsome encounter. And Westmore is normally more attractive than most. But far worse than the damage to her reputation, the moment’s indiscretion uncovers an assassination storyline that gets to to the highest levels of society and threatens the course of the entire nation.

Whenever a tight-laced miss and a scoundrel of epic proportions put their minds together, nothing may stand in their way. But unless they put their hearts jointly as well, a happy closing is not assured.