Title: The Reluctant Heiress
Series: Wallflowers & Scoundrels #2
Published by: Ardent Artist Books
Genre: Coming Soon, Regency
Release Date: 2026
The Reluctant Heiress Wallflowers & Scoundrels, Book 2
Cordelia Vane never wanted a fortune. She wanted her books, her quiet corner, and to be left entirely alone.
Society had other plans.
The moment her uncle's will was read, every drawing room in London had an opinion about Cordelia — and every ambitious family had a son. She expected flattery. She expected pursuit. She did not expect Lord Ashford Calloway to sit down across from her, look her in the eye, and tell her the truth.
He needs her money. His family needs her money. He is not going to pretend otherwise.
It is, without question, the most refreshing conversation she has ever had.
Their arrangement is simple: he will escort her through the Season, shield her from worse suitors, and be honest about every step. She will consider his suit without obligation. No performances. No pretense. Just two people being remarkably, uncomfortably candid with one another.
Cordelia tells herself it is practical.
Ashford tells himself it is temporary.
Neither of them accounts for what happens when honesty stops being a strategy — and starts feeling dangerously like something else entirely.
The Reluctant Heiress is a sweet Regency romance about a woman who never wanted to be found, and the scoundrel who was never supposed to actually look.
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