The Lady Once Known As

The final chapter in USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels’ series

Just before leaving for her beloved younger sister’s wedding, widow Lily Manning decides to

throw caution to the wind and go to the notorious Donville Masquerade for one night of fun with

no consequences. She ends up meeting a masked man, the Ares to her Aphrodite, who not only

plays her body like a musical instrument but also creates a connection neither are expecting.

Still, she’ll likely never know her mystery man’s identity, let alone see him again, and she can

accept that.


Everyone’s favorite rake, Viscount George Lockhart, is about to marry by arrangement and he is

struggling. He never would have rushed this wedding but for a promise he made to his beloved

mother, and now he finds himself at the country estate of his parents, getting ready to pledge

himself to a woman he hardly knows and feels nothing for. But this is the way of his

world…isn’t it? And there’s no way out even if it wasn’t.


When Lily arrives for the wedding and meets George, one thing becomes abundantly clear to

her. He is the man she spent her one night of passion with, but since she was masked during the

powerful encounter, he doesn’t recognize her. Now she’s in a terrible situation, both trying to

keep the truth from coming out and working to discover if this man is a cad or just someone

trapped by circumstance. But the closer the two become and the more and more secrets come

out, the harder it’s going to be for either of them to do what Society would label as right.


This is the fifth book in the About An Earl series and can be read as a standalone.