The growth requires deep self-compassion for Sera that allows her to appreciate not just herself but also Adam. The heart of the story is how they process it internally and with each other and how they grow as a result of this work. What I liked about this book is how Peckham has her protagonists tackle their trauma. Sera and Adam meet on a Cornish cliffside where he is engaged in assessing the architecture of a structure and she mistakes him for her erstwhile lover. Thus, if he were to marry again, he needs someone of exemplary character. He is an architect who sees politics in his future. He is a widower whose wife died in childbirth, and he is raising their children on his own. He has a large capacity for empathy, thoughtfulness and caring and generously shares of himself with others. She is a rakess in the true sense of how historical romances view rakes.Īdam Anderson, on the other hand, is abstemious and fastidious. She is answerable to no one and responsible to no one. Privately, she lives a hedonistic life of drinking and casual sex. Despite her beliefs coming under fire from all directions, she stands steadfast by them. This book contains the following: explicit sex consensual kink and BDSM masturbation with creative objects the outing of a character's private erotic preferences sex work trauma concerning past unwanted sexual advances and one very annoying dog.Inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft, Seraphina “Sera” Arden is a passionate liberalist and feminist whose core values are helping other women, who’ve run afoul men and have their lives ruined, and championing rights for women. (If you prefer to be surprised, skip this part!) There's only one problem: he can't forgive her for breaking his heart.įair readers, a note on content, for those who like to know. They have a month to clear his name and convince society they are madly in love.īut when Constance discovers her faux-intended is decidedly more than meets the eye-not to mention adept at shocking forms of wickedness-she finds herself falling for him. When the woman he's secretly in love with confesses she's at fault, it isn't just his life that is shattered: it's his heart. Julian Haywood, the Earl of Apthorp, is on the cusp of finally proving himself to be the man he's always wanted to be when his future is destroyed in a single afternoon.

He's supposedly the most boring politician in the House of Lords. Or the fact that he disapproves of everything she holds dear. Never mind that it means spending a month with the dullest man in England.

Or, at the very least, stage a whirlwind fake engagement to repair his reputation.

When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp's entire future with her gossip column, she does what any honorable young lady must: offer her hand in marriage.

The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham