A Delicate Deception
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Publisher Description
When Amelia Allenby escaped a stifling London ballroom for the quiet solitude of the Derbyshire countryside, the very last thing she wanted was an extremely large, if—she grudgingly admits—passably attractive man disturbing her daily walks. Lecturing the surveyor about property rights doesn’t work and, somehow, he has soon charmed his way into lemon cakes, long walks, and dangerously heady kisses.
The very last place Sydney wished to be was in the shadow of the ruins of Pelham Hall, the inherited property that stole everything from him. But as he awaits his old friend, the Duke of Hereford, he finds himself increasingly captivated by the maddeningly lovely and exceptionally odd Amelia. He quickly finds that keeping his ownership of Pelham Hall a secret is as impossible as keeping himself from falling in love with her.
But when the Duke of Hereford arrives, Sydney’s ruse is revealed and what started out as a delicate deception has become a love too powerful to ignore. Will they let a lifetime of hurt come between them or can these two lost souls find love and peace in each other?
Customer Reviews
A delight to read
I received an ARC of this book to read through Edelweiss+ in exchange for a fair review. A Delicate Deception by Cat Sebastian is the third book in her Regency Impostors series. It can be read as a stand-alone but I highly recommend the first two books in the series and Amelia Allenby does appear in A Duke in Disguise and reading it will help you understand her character just a bit better. Amelia Allenby the illegitimate sister of the Marquess of Pembroke spent her life living behind a series of masks in order to be accepted by society until one day she realized that she just couldn’t do it anymore and she walked off the dance floor of a ballroom and left her partner standing there. This book begins a year after that incident and she’s spent that time living quietly in a rented cottage in Derbyshire with just the company of her former governess Georgiana Russell. When she starts running into a very large man on her morning walks she is taken aback because her route and the timing of it were planned in order to avoid running to to people and this giant is disturbing both her solitude and equilibrium. Sydney Goddard designer of steam engines and railways has come to Derbyshire at the request of his friend and former lover the Duke of Hereford. He is still deep in mourning for his brother and sister-in-law who was the Duke’s sister and the secrets that he keeps from Amelia have more to do with his reluctance to accept their deaths than to deceiver her. I devoured this book in one day and then went back the next day and read it again because I enjoyed it so much. Sparkling banter, and Cat Sebastian’s ability to create characters that one cares about and can relate to make this book one I am delighted to recommend reading. Medium Steam. Publishing Date December 10, 2019 #Edelweissplus #ADelicateDeception #CatSebastian #HistoricalRomance #RegencyImpostersSeries #AvonRomance #HarperCollinsCanada #AvonImpulse #bookstagram