Scandal Incarnate (No Rules for Rogues Book 2)

last for the next twenty-plus years. London’s Daily Universal Register becomes the Times. The first convicts are transported from Britain to Australia, and Sydney is founded. 1789 marks the beginning of the Revolution in France, and the world will never be the same. The guillotine is invented. Mrs Radcliffe’s first horror novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, is published. Fashion is also undergoing a major transformation, the likes of which will not be seen again until the flappers burst onto the scene more than one hundred years later. Hoops have been discarded in favour of false rumps, and soon even those will be gone as the fashion turns towards a Greek ideal. Vigée Le Brun has already painted the scandalous portrait of Marie Antoinette in her Robe à la Reine and the fashion has taken England by storm. The Duke of Devonshire is openly living with his wife and his mistress (the duchess’s best friend). The young Prince of Wales is illegally married to the Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, and has likely already sired an illegitimate son. The Whigs and Tories are locked in combat in Parliament, each marshalled behind their leaders, Charles Fox and his former protégé, William Pitt.

It is this world that I have tried to give you a glimpse into—a world poised on the brink of almost unimaginable change. I hope you have enjoyed the journey, and I hope you’ll join me for many, many more. For information about me and my upcoming releases please visit me on my website: isobelcarr.com.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost the late Georgette Heyer, without whom I would never have written a romance novel. Julia Ross, whose books taught me that lyricism isn’t dead in modern fiction. Jessica Cohen, who illustrated my amazing cover. Amanda Cockrell, who taught me both how to conduct research and showed me that being a novelist was a perfectly normal occupation. And Candice Hern, whose insight into publishing has helped me immensely, and whose amazing collection of Georgian antiques literally inspires me (she knows exactly which scene I’m talking about!).

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely accidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Isobel Carr (SCANDAL INCARNATE)

Kindle Edition

ISBN: 978-1-940160-03-0

Cover illustration and design © 2020 by Jessica T. Cohen

Scandal Incarnate was originally published as Lord Scandal Copyright © 2008 by Kalen Hughes ISBN: 978-0-821781-50-0

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