This did get a little more serious as Penny confronted the tragedy from her past, but there was enough humor to not make it a total mood killer and I did love how she saved herself in the end, she has learned much from the Duke of Ruin. Then there is the attraction she is feeling toward Gabe and the way he makes her feel, maybe she can save him too.īoth Gabe and Penny have some tragedies in their past and as they get to know one another they find that in some ways they are more alike than once believed. I love all the animals in her care and how much trouble they seem to get Penny into. Gabe is great at finding undervalued things, putting a shine to them, and selling them off for more he’s built a fortune on it and Penny is definitely undervalued. He for the life of him can’t understand how someone so beautiful and funny could possibly not be attached to a man with a brood of kids already. If he has to figure out how to place all the animals in her care and help her get out into society, then fine, it is a small price to pay. Gabriel is a self-made man who has purchased the home next door and needs Penny to reside there if he has any hope of selling it to someone looking to climb the ranks of society by living next door to an Earl’s Daughter. There is no way she is going to find a home for a parrot who formally resided in a house of ill-repute. She is threatened by her aunt and brother that if she can’t figure out a way to get rid of all the animals at the house and end up in the society pages, she will be hauled off to the country to live out her spinsterhood. Penelope ‘I never met an animal I couldn’t rescue’ Campion, has a barnyard full at her house and at six and twenty has reached spinster status. The Wallflower Wager didn’t disappoint and is everything I’ve come to expect from Tessa Dare. I always know I’m going to have a good time, it will feel like coming home and there will be some giggling. Reading a Tessa Dare book, is like going to coffee with a friend you haven’t seen in a while. Now she's set her mind and heart on saving him.

Soon, cold-hearted Gabriel, who wouldn't know a loving home from a workhouse, is covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable animals, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens? She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.ĭone, Gabriel says.

When her imposing―and attractive―new neighbour demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn't take into her home and her heart. Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society―and now he wants to get even. Published by HarperAudio on August 13, 2019Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple

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