Reputation at Risk: A Chronicle of Misadventures, Book 1

When Charlotte Mandeville's secret weapon becomes someone else's most urgent problem, sparks—and accusations—are bound to fly.

In Regency London's glittering but ruthless social world, Charlotte survives by doing what no respectable young lady should: crafting wickedly sharp satirical caricatures that expose the *haut-ton*'s greatest scandals. It's anonymous, it's dangerous, and it's the only thing keeping her family from ruin. Then evidence linking her to her secret work lands in the wrong hands—specifically, those of Anthony Yorke, a man whose charming exterior conceals a burning desperation to clear his brother's name.

Anthony needs what Charlotte has. Charlotte refuses to surrender it without a price. And the arrangement they strike is as scandalous as anything she's ever drawn: a fake engagement, complete with all the social performances that entails.

The problem? They can't stand each other. He finds her reckless and infuriating. She finds him insufferably controlling and far too handsome for anyone's good. But as they navigate ballrooms and drawing rooms together, trading barbs and reluctant truces, the mystery deepening around them forces a question neither expected to face—what if the greatest threat to both their reputations isn't scandal at all, but the very real feelings neither of them can keep pretending don't exist?

Clean, clever, and brimming with wit, *Reputation at Risk* is a historical romance that proves the line