In the initial book in Eva Leigh’s new Union of the Rakes series, a bluestocking enlists a faux suitor to greatly help her land a perfect husband only to be blindsided by real desire…

Lady Sophistication Wyatt is content like a wallflower, focusing on technological pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. But when a attractive, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace desires, for once, to be noticed. Her answer: to “build” an ideal man, who will courtroom her publicly and help her catch his about My Fake Rake: The Union of the Rakes eyesight. Grace’s colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the empty slate she needs.

To help expand his own study on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing-albeit fake-rake. Between magic formula lessons on how best to be a rogue and exaggerated general public flirtations, Grace’s emotions for Sebastian develop from camaraderie into undeniable, inconvenient, actual attraction. Only if she hadn’t asked him to greatly help her marry someone else…

Sebastian is in love with amazing, beautiful Sophistication, but their discount is total, and she wishes another. However when he’s faced with shedding her permanently, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future-and his center.