Imogene, His Courteous Muse (Ethereal Regency Ladies Book 3)

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Lady Imogene O’Reilly, beautiful, penniless, an orphan, has been raised in the house of her aunt and uncle, a duke and duchess, where she’s always felt second-best to her spoiled cousins. When the boy she used to know, now a man and a brilliant painter, comes to stay for the summer, she little suspects it is she who will draw his attention and not her willowy, blonde cousins. Love for this gentle, handsome man is so unexpected but so strong, she can’t, won’t resist, although her adoptive parents have very different ideas for the future of their ward.

Lewis Carmichael, Marquess of Broadwater, is wedded to his art—or so he thought. When he agreed to accompany his mother to visit her rich friends, the Duke and Duchess of Bedfordshire, for the summer, he tried hard to ignore her hints that he might make a match with one of their two daughters. He’d almost forgotten his old playmate, the little, sad-eyed orphan girl who lives with the family and always loved his drawings. That is until he meets her again and sees what a beauty she’s grown into. Not only that, but she is kind and clever. She becomes his artistic muse, and soon he comes to realize she’s perfect for him. But his own plans to make her his own are frustrated by those of others, and he must fight to win the woman he loves.