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Emily Larkin

A governess in jeopardy ... and the marquis’s son who goes undercover to protect her.

Lord Octavius Pryor leads a carefree and untroubled life, until the night he visits Vauxhall Gardens in the guise of a woman.

At Vauxhall, Octavius discovers that being a female is very different from being a man. Annoyingly different, unpleasantly different, and—when he encounters the lecherous Baron Rumpole—dangerously different.

Determined to teach the baron a lesson, Octavius infiltrates Rumpole’s household, where he meets the woman of his dreams: Miss Toogood, governess to the baron’s daughters.

Suddenly Octavius has three pressing tasks. 1) Teach the baron to keep his yardstick in his breeches. 2) Keep Miss Toogood safe. 3) Convince her to marry him.

A word of caution: This novel is a bodice ripper, and I mean that quite literally. Bodices are ripped in this book—and not in a playful or sexy way. However, I promise you that all rippers of bodices receive their just desserts.

From USA TODAY Bestseller Emily Larkin comes a new addition to the acclaimed and multi-award-winning Baleful Godmother series!

If you love wildly entertaining and intensely emotional historical romances that will keep you reading all night long, then this novel is for you.

Be swept into a Regency England brimming with romance and peril, magic and love. Start this addictive series today!

Contains mature themes. 

Performed by Audie-winning narrator Rosalyn Landor.

Rosalyn Landor

Pryor Cousins

Octavius and the Perfect Governess: A Baleful Godmother Novel

When a devil-may-care rake rescues a frosty young widow from highwaymen, their lives become deliciously entangled.

Decimus Pryor is one of London’s most notable rakes. He saunters through life, trysting with young widows and making people laugh. But rumors have spread that his skills in the bedroom are overrated. The young widows are laughing at him, not with him, and slamming shut the doors to their boudoirs.

Eloïse Fortrose has always spurned Decimus’s advances, but when he rescues her from highwaymen, she discovers that there’s a lot more to this Casanova than meets the eye.

What better way to heat up the chilly autumn nights than to indulge in a brief liaison? They’ll frolic between the sheets, laugh a little, restore Decimus’s standing as a rake, then go their separate ways.

Eloïse doesn’t believe in love and neither does Decimus . . . but love is coming for them both, whether they want it to or not.

This Regency romance contains one dashing rake, one beautiful young widow, three hapless highwaymen, a master of disguise, and a sprinkling of magic.

From USA TODAY bestseller Emily Larkin comes a new addition to the acclaimed and multi-award-winning Baleful Godmother series! Decimus and the Wary Widow is the second Pryor Cousins novel and can be read as a standalone.

If you love entertaining, emotional, and heartwarming historical romances that will keep you reading all night long, then this novel is for you.

Be swept into a Regency England brimming with passion and emotion, magic and love. Start this addictive series today!

Contains mature themes. A Regency romance with sensual love scenes. 

Performed by Audie-winning narrator Rosalyn Landor.

Decimus and the Wary Widow: A Baleful Godmother Novel