Emma V. Leech

One bold pursuit. One wicked secret. One unforgettable romance.
A Sparkling, Subversive Victorian Romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Snow is cold, water is wet, and Vivien Anson is beautiful. Painfully, inconveniently, relentlessly beautiful. After more proposals than any respectable young lady ought to collect, she’s gaining a reputation as an ice maiden — all because not a single suitor has bothered to look past her face to the woman beneath. Viv is clever, bold, and determined to take her future into her own hands. If fate won’t deliver the right man… she’ll go out and find him herself.

Enter August Lane‑Fox.
With his guileless blue eyes and impeccable manners, August appears to be the very model of a quiet, well‑behaved gentleman. Society adores him. Mothers trust him. Debutantes sigh over him.
And it’s all a lie.

Behind that angelic façade lurks the mastermind of half the ton’s most outrageous escapades — a scoundrel in disguise who now wants nothing more than peace, stability, and a wife who won’t drag him into chaos. After years of surviving his radical mother and scandal‑loving sisters, the last thing he needs is a woman who invites trouble like a magnet.
Unfortunately for August, Vivien Anson has chosen him.

If she can’t tempt him into proposing, she’ll simply propose herself. And if she has to coax, tease, or scandalise him into revealing the wickedness she’s certain lies beneath that polished exterior… well, Viv has never been afraid of a little daring.

But August is far more dangerous — and far more tempting — than she ever imagined.

It might take just a little daring to win him.
It might take a great deal more to survive him.