BOOK #4

Start with Mayfair Misfit. Pragmatic Lady Carlotta Castlebury secretly adores the theatre. Enamored with the written and performed word, she writes play scripts in her journal. One afternoon in Hyde Park she loses it, only to discover soon after that the latest theatrical performance on Drury Lane sounds remarkably like her play. Yet the audacious liar taking credit for it is decidedly not her. Rather, the insufferable man is London's most popular playwright, Thatcher Goodrich. Lottie is going to march down to Rhodes Theatre and give the writer a piece of her mind and most assuredly none of her heart. The third son of an impoverished baron, Thatcher has made his way in the world with his wit and a deft pen. When his muse abandons him and leaves him wordless exactly when King William personally requests a new play, Thatcher does what any desperate playwright would do: he finds one and claims it as his own! He doesn't expect the true author to barge into the theatre like a warrior queen and demand her work back. Yet when His Majesty wishes another play, Thatcher must pen another with her, and the more time he spends with her the harder in love he falls. Until something in Lottie's play rankles a dangerous foe, endangering them.