A Seaside Scandal: A Regency Romance (Change of Heart Book 2)

A ruined reputation and a reluctant groom — not exactly the seaside holiday Miss Alice Kellaway had in mind.

When Alice arrives at the coast for a peaceful summer retreat, the last thing she expects is to find herself competing with her closest friend for the attention of the brooding, infuriatingly guarded Jonathan Croft. Jonathan, however, wants nothing to do with either of them — convinced that every eligible woman within his orbit is simply chasing his fortune, he keeps his heart under lock and key.

Then a single ill-fated swim changes everything. One compromising moment is all it takes to shred Alice's reputation beyond repair, and suddenly she and Jonathan are bound together in a marriage neither of them chose, wanted, or remotely welcomed.

Forced proximity is one thing. Forced matrimony is quite another.

Trapped beneath the same roof, Alice and Jonathan clash at every turn — she bristling at his cold suspicion, he refusing to believe her motives are anything but mercenary. Yet the walls between them are thinner than either dares to admit. Beneath his guardedness lies a man shaped by genuine hurt, and beneath her frustration lies a woman determined to be truly seen.

Set against the sun-soaked backdrop of Regency England's coastline, *A Seaside Scandal* is a clean, swoony marriage-of-convenience romance brimming with sharp wit, slow-burning tension, and the intoxicating question of whether two people who started as enemies can ever truly become one.

Some scandals, it turns out, are the best thing that ever happened to you.