The Lady Knows Best - Susanna Craig

The Lady Knows Best

By Susanna Craig

  • Release Date: 2023-04-25
  • Genre: Historical Romance
Score: 4
4
From 27 Ratings

Description

In her print debut, award-winning author Susanna Craig launches a new Regency historical romance series, based around the daring ladies’ magazine Mrs. Goode’s Magazine for Misses, Being a Guide to Improve Conduct and Promote Wisdom among Young Persons of the Fair Sex—also known as Goode’s Guide to Misconduct—and the witty, clever, often rebellious heroines behind it, including a controversial new advice columnist. A modern twist on the genre, will appeal to fans of Ella Quinn, Sabrina Jeffries, and those who love faster-paced, innovative historical romance featuring strong women.

Serving as the advice columnist, ‘Miss Busy B.’, for an often-subversive ladies’ magazine is the perfect outlet for Daphne Burke’s outspoken nature. But when she advises a young lady of the ton, to break off her engagement to a notorious rake, the consequences take Daphne beyond the page and into her real life.

 Miles, Viscount Deveraux, sometimes known as “that devil Deveraux”needs a respectable bride by the end of the Season, and he’s bet a fortune that he can get one. Now, his fiancée has not only changed her mind—but done it publicly, in a letter to London’s most infamous magazine. With the stakes high and time short, it seems reasonable to him that the columnist responsible should come to his rescue and marry him instead.
 
Fortunately for Miles, Daphne is eager to escape the pressures of the London marriage mart. She agrees to a courtship. But at the end of two weeks, she intends to turn him down in a big, splashy, scandal that will ruin her reputation and set her free. There’s just one shocking wrinkle: Who knew being ruined by a rake could be so much fun?

Reviews

  • 4 Stars!!

    4
    By Carey1586
    4 Stars! This was the first book in the new series ‘Goode’s Guide to Misconduct’ and can be read as a standalone. I enjoyed this book, even though at times it seemed to drag on. The main characters are Daphne/Miss Busy B and Miles/Lord Devereux. I liked both main characters and was glad they got an HEA ending. The ‘sexy times’ were hot and not overly detailed. I do wish they had had a bit more romance and chemistry but it still worked as it is. Can’t wait to read secondary character Alastair’s book! *I received this at no charge & I voluntarily left this review.*