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In early‑Victorian London, Lady Sarah Frampton—the demure “Watching Wallflower” in high society—conceals her clandestine career as England’s most scandalous erotica author. Her world is rocked when she marries Reverend Jeremy Cleland, a clergyman whose family has tasked him with unmasking the author who has captured the ton. Jeremy knows none of Sarah’s double life, yet his own secret mission and the tensions of their new marriage pull at their trust. The novel explores how Sarah’s hidden identity could destroy their union or whether the irresistibly wicked temptations of a wallflower wife can endure.
Key themes include secrecy, dual identity, power dynamics in Victorian society, and the clash between public decorum and private desire.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Eva Leigh
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