A Spinster for the Earl

A Spinster for the Earl A STEAMY HISTORICAL REGENCY ROMANCE NOVEL THE HALE SISTERS BOOK THREE MAYBEL BARDOT Contents Join this amazing group! Before You Start Reading… Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Epilogue Extended Epilogue Preview: Three Rules to Bed an Earl Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Also by Maybel Bardot About the Author Join this amazing group! Did you know that there is a group where you can chat with me and with thousands of like-minded book-worms all over the globe? Group name on Facebook: Cobalt Fairy’s Voracious Readers Click here to join and I guarantee you, you’d wish you had joined us sooner! Just click on the image above! ⇧ About the Book “The unattainable spinster offers five promenades to the highest bidder!” As if the rumors of his mother’s madness were not enough, Lord Isaac’s rakish behavior makes him the most dangerous man within the ton. Still, as the Earl of Ramsbury, the time to find a wife has come. Yet when a bold spinster dares challenge him, he just can’t resist one last tryst… Her adamant wish to never marry has earned Miss Lucy the nickname ‘the unattainable spinster’. Which serves as a great repellant until she stumbles across a man who makes her burn with passion for the first time. When five promenades with Lucy are given in the charity event they are both attending, Isaac does not hesitate. But Lucy wants something in return, something only a rake can give. Unable to resist the temptation a fate worse than scandal awaits them… Before You Start Reading… The female protagonist of this book, Miss Lucy Hale is notoriously known as “The Unattainable Spinster”. And even though she hates it, it has served her greatly! But how did she earn this nickname? Here is Lucy’s Prequel Chapter which will help you understand and visualize the story inside my book better. Many of my readers requested it and that's why I am giving it away for free! I believe you will LOVE IT! It’s not mandatory to read it, but it will be really helpful if it's your first time with this book. Read the story of The Unattainable Spinster here. Just click on the image above! ⇧ Chapter One Lucy sat on the dusty pink parlor chair and watched her oldest sister Emma pace back and forth. Emma reminded Lucy of a teapot as it reached its boiling point. She was frenetic, bouncing from spot to spot around the drawing room. Her footsteps echoed off the grand ceiling. All the beautiful porcelain decorations in the cupboard rattled ever so softly. “Everything looks perfect,” Lucy assured her. Emma was a duchess, having married the handsome and powerful Duke of Radford only five years earlier. Lucy had had a front-row seat to all her sisters’ romances. The only thing she envied, though, was the beautiful things her sisters had to show for their successful matches. Anyone who said that money couldn’t buy happiness obviously had enough money so as to never have to worry about their future. Lucy couldn’t live off her father’s wealth forever while retaining her freedom. Harriet scoffed, her nose in the air. “I don’t think you could sound any more annoyed if you tried.” Lucy hadn’t seen her older sisters in quite some time. Each of them, including Margaret, the eldest, was happily married and off living her own fairytale. It was exactly how it was supposed to be, each of them having tied off all the loose ends of their lives in neat, tidy, pleasing bows. To have your life over by twenty and three seemed a cruel fate. “What is this fundraiser even for?” Harriet asked. Harriet was the closest in age to Lucy. She could not have been any more different than her. She had curly brown hair. Her cheeks and the tip of her nose were always dusted with a heavy amount of color as if she were always cold. It had always made her look youthful and sweet. Lucy, on the other hand, had straight, dark, nearly black hair. Her features were soft, and yet her eyes often looked stern and unforgiving. She had often been told that she looked unapproachable. If that was what kept men at bay, then so be it. Emma stopped moving and crossed her arms. “How do you not know? This has been my greatest focus for the last five months!” Harriet frowned. “My greatest focus has been Violet,” she said of her two-year-old daughter. “This fundraiser is for the education of young ladies,” Lucy announced. “Specifically,” Emma added, “those in the country who have less access to the offerings that London Society may have.” Emma was the second-born Hale daughter. She was tall with foxlike eyes and a mischievous smile that suggested that she thought more than she ever said. While she and Lucy had their own similarities, Emma had a golden tongue and managed to always say the right things to the right people. “I wish there was something that I could do to help with your fundraiser,” Lucy said. While Lucy had always been the bluestocking of the Hale sisters, Emma had often expressed an interest in learning. That was something the two had always had in common. “You know how much this cause appeals to me.” “Well,” Emma began, fluffing up the pink peonies in a vase on the table. “I am certain I can dream up something if you wish to help with tonight’s auction. There must be something. We can use any help we can get with Margaret in her confinement.” Margaret, the first-born Hale daughter, had always dreamed of having a huge family. She and her husband were well on their way with