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Do You Want To Start A Scandal is book 5 in the Spindle Cove series, but it is easily a stand alone book. The book doesn't actually take place in Spindle Cove, but it does feature one family from there.

If you have read the other Spindle Cove books, you know what a scheming, conniving, pushy mother this woman is. Two of her daughters have already defied her and married as they chose - now she just has the youngest one to push into marriage with any male she can as long as he is high ranking.

Charlotte Highwood knows her mother will be plotting to pair her off with the highest ranking gentleman at the house party they are attending. That just happens to be Piers Brandon, Lord Granville who is a Marques. Charlotte doesn't want to be part of the plot, so she follows him into the hosts library in order to warn him of what her mother will be about. Just then, they hear someone approaching and hide in an alcove - when - what should happen -- why a romantically inclined couple enter the library and proceed to have a very intimate tryst. Oh the mortification! But Charlotte thinks it is funny and starts giggling and Piers has to bury her head in his chest to keep her from being heard. You know they are going to get caught - you just have to wait to see how. So starts this lighthearted, romantic book.

Charlotte doesn't want to marry -- she wants to go on a grand tour with her best friend. That is the reason she's at the house party -- to show her best friends parents that they are mature enough to make the tour without their parents, but with a chaperone. So, you can imagine getting caught in a 'compromising' position with the Marquess isn't a very good way to get started.

Piers immediately offers for Charlotte, but she says no -- they didn't do anything. Of course, nobody buys that. But Charlotte only agrees to a private engagement to satisfy her mother and the host and then sets her mind to finding who the REAL couple were and to get them to come forward.

You'll be delighted with who the intimate couple is -- and why.

Piers is a real cold fish and is incapable of any warm, soft feelings - can Charlotte change that and thaw his cold heart. You'll just have to read the book to see!!!!

I loved it!


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Do You Want to Start a Scandal Castles Ever After edition by Tessa Dare Romance eBooks Reviews

Hilarious dialogue, sympathetic characters, charming plot and clear period descriptors all led me to a five-star rating. Miss Charlotte Highwood has a mother who is determined to marry her off -- no matter the scandal. Charlotte goes to warn her mother's next target (Piers, Lord Granville) and all manner of chaos ensues -- and all with the best intentions. And that is all the story I will reveal. Although this is a stand-alone novel, Ms. Dare has brought together two of her series as a crossover and did a superb job. Charlotte is from the Spindle Cove series (also wonderful) and Lord Granville from Castles Ever After (wonderful, too). Characters from these two series play small but meaningful parts adding to the depth of the story and to my enjoyment. Be forewarned - there is some pretty intimate sexual interaction but not ridiculously explicit.
Originally posted on Smitten by Books Review site and blog

4.5 Stars ~ Top Pick

Reading Tessa Dare’s Do You Want to Start a Scandal reminded me that as much as I love to have my angst level cranked up to heart-wrenching heights, I love a good laugh too. And boy did I laugh. I think I laughed pretty solidly through the first 5% of this book.

You know how sometimes heroines who are meant to amuse come across as silly? I’ve read books like that. This is not that book and Charlotte Highwood is not that heroine. She’s truly adorable. Witty, outspoken, exuberant and prone to the occasional gaffe, Charlotte is fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with her. And Ms. Dare introduces her to readers in one of the most memorable, laugh-out-loud opening scenes I can remember.

Charlotte’s mother is shamelessly trying to hook a good match for her last unmarried daughter and she has her sight set on Piers Brandon, the Marquess of Granville. They’re all houseguests of Sir and Mrs. Parkhurst for a fortnight (Charlotte is best friends with the youngest daughter Delia). Charlotte decides the easiest way to avoid her mother’s machinations is to warn the marquess. She does so by following him and confronting him in the library. Yes, she’s there to save him. She then goes on to explain, in only the way she can, why a match between would be absurd. Playing the devil’s advocate, he argues that she would be getting much in return.

“I’m a marquess. I have five houses.”
“But you know what I mean,” she said. “It would be a disaster, through and through.”
“An existence marked by tedium and punctuated by misery.”
“Undoubtedly.”
“We’d forced to base our entire relationship on sexual congress.”
“Er…what?”

Piers is wonderful. I loved him. Loved his aloofness and his arid dry sense of humor. Loved that his sense of honor compels him into offering for Charlotte’s hand when they’re erroneously thought to have been the ones tupping in the library. Charlotte, however, is determined that neither of them will be trapped into a forced marriage. She wants to marry only for love, and she doesn’t particularly like the marquess to boot. That of course changes as they become better acquainted. But that doesn’t stop her from attempting to discover the lovers who did in fact have a sexual tryst in the library. What she does discover is that Piers is a man with secrets. Lots of secrets. And he’s not the reserved and strait-laced marquess that he appears. He certainly doesn’t kiss like one…

As the marriage noose closes around Charlotte’s slender neck and with time running out, there’s a particularly amusing scene in which her mother decides that her daughter, at the age of twenty, needs to be told about the birds and the bees.

“You see, a man’s…ahem…is shaped differently from a woman’s…” Mama fluttered her hand. “…whatsit. And in the marital bed, he will wish to place his…” More hand fluttering. “…inside yours.”
“His ahem goes in my whatsit.”

It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed this much—particularly when reading a historical. And not only did I laugh, I had to keep a fan on hand because Ms. Dare knows how to write a love scene. Boy does she. She gives you everything hot, steamy lovemaking, passion and emotion. But what carries the day is the sheer sensuality of the scenes. In recent years, I’ve found myself skimming love scenes way too often. Not here. Not with this book. Nope, I read every word—fan afluttering.

“What’s your plan, Agent Brandon?” she whispered. “Do you mean to kiss me so long and so hard that I’ll forget your identity?”
“No.” His hand slid to the back of her head, tangling in her hair—so tightly she gasped. “I mean to kiss you so long and so hard that you’ll forget yours.”

That is nothing short of sexy. Forget Charlotte, I melted when I read it.

The story contains some surprising twists and turns and readers get to catch up with Charlotte’s older sisters Minerva and Diana, heroines from A Week to Be Wicked and Beauty and the Blacksmith, and their husbands.

There’s much to love about this book, but what I loved the most was Pier’s unwavering and dogged pursuit of Charlotte—although it comes without the promise of love. She’s not the heroine falling all over herself to get him to the altar despite her meager circumstances and her mother’s oftentimes embarrassing machinations. He—the marquess with five houses—is the one who has to do the convincing. And in an era of matchmaking mamas and a London Season created with the express purpose of young ladies securing their futures by landing a husband, it was nice to read about a hero doing the trapping and chasing.

~ Beverley
Do You Want To Start A Scandal is book 5 in the Spindle Cove series, but it is easily a stand alone book. The book doesn't actually take place in Spindle Cove, but it does feature one family from there.

If you have read the other Spindle Cove books, you know what a scheming, conniving, pushy mother this woman is. Two of her daughters have already defied her and married as they chose - now she just has the youngest one to push into marriage with any male she can as long as he is high ranking.

Charlotte Highwood knows her mother will be plotting to pair her off with the highest ranking gentleman at the house party they are attending. That just happens to be Piers Brandon, Lord Granville who is a Marques. Charlotte doesn't want to be part of the plot, so she follows him into the hosts library in order to warn him of what her mother will be about. Just then, they hear someone approaching and hide in an alcove - when - what should happen -- why a romantically inclined couple enter the library and proceed to have a very intimate tryst. Oh the mortification! But Charlotte thinks it is funny and starts giggling and Piers has to bury her head in his chest to keep her from being heard. You know they are going to get caught - you just have to wait to see how. So starts this lighthearted, romantic book.

Charlotte doesn't want to marry -- she wants to go on a grand tour with her best friend. That is the reason she's at the house party -- to show her best friends parents that they are mature enough to make the tour without their parents, but with a chaperone. So, you can imagine getting caught in a 'compromising' position with the Marquess isn't a very good way to get started.

Piers immediately offers for Charlotte, but she says no -- they didn't do anything. Of course, nobody buys that. But Charlotte only agrees to a private engagement to satisfy her mother and the host and then sets her mind to finding who the REAL couple were and to get them to come forward.

You'll be delighted with who the intimate couple is -- and why.

Piers is a real cold fish and is incapable of any warm, soft feelings - can Charlotte change that and thaw his cold heart. You'll just have to read the book to see!!!!

I loved it!