A different take on a Regency romance, “How to Handle a Scandal
True, Elizabeth Tarryton and Tommy Halifax have a history together, but they did not lose their innocence from each other. Both their innocence were lost in the intervening seven years that they were apart. Still, the attraction between them was palpable that even though Elizabeth was wearing a mask, Tommy felt drawn to her.
And for that one night that they gave in to their impulses, Elizabeth found herself pregnant. Though she tried to hide it from Tommy, he found out anyway! And this is where we as readers start falling in love with these two characters.
With both of them trying to do the right thing, they find themselves living a lie that is worse than the scandal of a baby born out of wedlock.
A provocative read that there are times when I forget that it is a Regency romance. I keep on thinking of the choices the two main characters could have made. If not for the steam sex scenes which automatically made How to Handle a Scandal (The Scandalous Sisters)
They thought the debutante was scandalous
Miss Elizabeth Tarryton was the toast of the London Season the year she was seventeen and spurned young Tommy Halifax. A careless flirt who didn’t know what she wanted, she was startled into laughter by his public proposal of marriage. Furious and heartbroken, Tommy promptly left home for a life of adventure in India.
If they only knew about the widow
Seven years later, Elizabeth has much to make up for, but the methods she chooses for doing good are as shocking as her earlier wanton behavior—should the ton ever find out. Tommy returns to England a hero, with no intention of allowing himself to be hurt by a woman ever again, but he’s fascinated nonetheless by Elizabeth, now widowed and more alluring than ever.
