Unmasking Lady Innocent

Spinster Diana Buntin has accepted that handsome Lord James Grey will never look at her as more than a friend.

Yet she is tired of waiting to experience passion. Years spent in dutiful mourning after the loss of her betrothed, followed by the passing of her elderly parents, have left her stranded on the shelf while chaperoning her niece. Resolved to taste life before youth slips away, she gambles on an anonymous encounter to awaken her senses.

Armed with a list of rakes known to specialize in seduction, Diana arranges to meet her first lover at a masked ball—keeping their identities secret and her reputation intact. But while Diana feels a powerful attraction to her mystery seducer, she also senses that he may not be a stranger after all….

• Friends to Lovers: Having leaned on honorable Lord James Grey through years of grief and financial tangled affairs, Diana cannot fathom that the staid gentleman who treats her like a sister could ever harbor wild desire.
• Second Chance: Diana resolves to step out of the shadows of mourning and reclaim the joy she sacrificed for duty.
• Secret Identity: Even within the secluded bedchamber of a stone house by the river, her mysterious paramour insists their velvet masks stay tied to protect her good name from ruin.
• Also by This Author: Wicked Rake, Defiant Mistress, Haunted by the Earl’s Touch and The Wife the Marquess Left Behind.