The Rake & The Pearl-Clutcher - Paperback
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A Romance from the Unhinged Historical Collection
Miss Prudence Fairweather has always believed in virtue, restraint, and the healing power of alphabetical order. But when three hellion sisters, a scandalous rake, and one wildly misused settee lead to a very public, very accidental engagement, she finds herself betrothed to the one man guaranteed to send her spiraling into sin: Lord Phineas Markham.
Phineas is a rake. Or he was. Or he's trying not to be. It's unclear-he's working through it in a series of confusing, impassioned monologues. Each more dramatic than the last. And each featuring a tragic backstory with entirely new details. Again.
Now Prudence must preserve her reputation, deny her increasingly indecent thoughts, and survive a fake engagement with a man who keeps taking his shirt off in emotionally symbolic ways.
He's chaos. She's clinging to decorum by her petticoats. And somewhere in the hedges, a goose is watching. Judging.
Featuring:
- An engagement founded on panic and pastry
- No fewer than eight contradictory tragic pasts
- A scandalous under-table incident at tea
- Literary fondling
- A heroine who keeps saying "this cannot happen again"
- And a hero who keeps proving that it absolutely can
If you enjoy quirky, character driven historical romantic comedies with heaving bosoms, unrepentant ridiculousness, and jokes that get funnier every time they're repeated, this one's for you.
Verity Farcett writes the books you never knew you needed-until you tripped over them.
From Regency romps with weaponized scandals to epic fantasies where the Chosen One probably isn't, Verity skewers every genre trope she can get her quill on. Her stories blend absurdity, wit, and sideways logic, delivering plots that spiral gloriously out of control while somehow still hitting every satisfying emotional beat.
Whether it's historical romance, heroic quests, or gothic melodrama, no trope is safe-but every adventure is written with a suspicious amount of affection for the genre she's dismantling. If you like earnest disasters, reluctant heroes, and plots that fight back, you'll find your next favorite catastrophe right here.
When she isn't orchestrating fictional disasters, Verity can be found communing with her Tufted Roman goose, Toni-muse, menace, and inspiration for all honking hijinks.
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