I was dazzled., 'there's just something about the way structures her plots that slips under my skin and gets my mental wheels turning every time.' - Seattle Review of Books 'Every now and then, you discover a new (or at least, new-to-you) author who leaves you a little sunstruck. Yet when he's faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future-and his heart.Įvery now and then, you discover a new (or at least, new-to-you) author who leaves you a little sunstruck. Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. If only she hadn't asked him to help her marry someone else. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Grace's feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. To further his own research on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing-albeit fake-rake. Grace's colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. Her solution: to 'build' the perfect man, who will court her publicly and help her catch his eye. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. In the first book in Eva Leigh's new Union of the Rakes series, a bluestocking enlists a faux suitor to help her land an ideal husband only to be blindsided by real desire.

My fake rake the union of the rakes