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The Lady Tempts an Heir
By  Harper St. George
🎧 Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Series: The Gilded Age Heiresses, Book 3 
Book 39 of 2024

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Harper St. George’s The Heiress Gets a Duke, the first book in this series, was one of the first historical romances that I read – way before my Bridgerton era of reading them every week. I picked it up from BOTM because of the gorgeous cover, and read it cover to cover on a lazy Sunday. 

These are interconnected, so I would start at the beginning, but you certainly don’t have to. Perfect for fans of:

💖 feminist historical romance
💖 fairly short, spicy reads

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Lady Helena March is a widow looking for the support of the ton for her project: The London Home for Young Women. She hopes to help women who have need support – especially those trying to raise children without a husband or family support. Her love interest, the wealthy American Maxwell Crenshaw, is also concerned with the plight of the poor and working class. They decide that it would be in their best interest for their businesses and place in society if they fake an engagement. 

I loved the fake engagement and watching it blossom into more, but my favorite part was with Helena’s backstory and reason for not wanting to remarry. During her first marriage, she found out that she was unable to have children, and it is a major theme of the book that she does not believe anyone would want to marry her for that reason. I thought the author approached this topic with empathy, while also digging into the impacts of infertility on a marriage, and how that trauma would affect future relationships. 

🎧 The audiobook is very well done, I loved the choices Justine Eyre made for all the characters.

QotD: This series has the most gorgeous jewel-toned dresses on each cover. What colors or patterns do you like to wear? (Pastels? Bold colors? Neutrals? Prints? Graphics?)

I tend to like neutrals and pastels!

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A fake engagement brings together a lady with bold and daring dreams, and the heir whose heart she captured—perfect for fans of Bridgerton!

Tall, dark, and brooding—to say that American Maxwell Crenshaw stood out in the glittering ballrooms of London, is an understatement. He vowed never to set foot in England again, but when a summons from his father, along with an ultimatum to secure his legacy, has him crossing the Atlantic for the last time, reuniting him with the delectable Lady Helena March, he can’t deny the temptation she presents. Or the ideas she inspires…

Lady Helena March is flirting with scandal. Instead of spending her time at teas and balls in search of another husband, as is expected of a young widow, Helena pours her energy into The London Home for Young Women. But Society gives no quarter to unmarried radicals who associate with illegitimate children and fallen women, and Helena’s funding is almost run out. So when the sinfully seductive Crenshaw heir suggests a fake engagement to save them both—him from an unwanted marriage and her from scorn and financial ruin—Helena finds herself too fascinated to refuse the sexy American.

As their arrangement of convenience melts oh so deliciously into nights of passion, their deception starts to become real. But if Max knew the true reason Helena can never remarry, he wouldn’t look at her with such heat in his eyes. Or might the Crenshaw heir be willing to do whatever it takes to win the one woman he’s never been able to forget…