By Return of Post (The Ladies of the Lion's Mouth) - Softcover

Piper, Maddie

9798235684980: By Return of Post (The Ladies of the Lion's Mouth)

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ISBN 13: 9798235684980

Publisher: Maddie Piper, 2026

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Someone is forging her letters. He wants her signature on a marriage contract. Neither has accounted for falling in love.

Miss Theodosia Hensleigh has kept The Quill's accounts balanced since her father died. Every bill paid. Every deadline met. Every sacrifice carefully concealed from her sisters.

Then the library's entire autumn order vanishes.

The London wholesaler has a cancellation letter bearing Theo's name. She never wrote it. With Christmas interest coming due and Bath's impatient subscribers deserting for a rival library, someone has found precisely where to strike.

Mr. Julius Fane offers a solution-in four contractual clauses.

Wealthy, clever, and inconveniently connected to a notorious gaming club, Julius needs a respectable wife before a Chancery court places his two small half-sisters in the care of an aunt interested only in their fortunes. Theo needs to save her family's livelihood. A marriage could settle both difficulties.

She refuses him. Very politely.

Then she begins to calculate.

There is one complication missing from his proposal: Julius has a hundred guineas riding on exposing Mrs. Candour, the anonymous advice writer whose secret belongs to Theo's own household.

As mourning drapes Bath in black crape and two small travellers arrive in the winter rain, Theo and Julius pursue forged letters, bribed clerks, and a banking family with designs on The Quill itself. Working together means trusting a man whose wager could undo everything she is trying to protect.

Yet beneath his easy charm, Theo discovers someone worth more than his fortune. And Julius begins to want far more than the sensible arrangement he proposed.

Before the Christmas Reckoning, they must uncover who is threatening the library-and decide what promises they are willing to make without a contract.

By Return of Post is Book Two of The Ladies of the Lion's Mouth series and a complete romance in its own right: a witty marriage-of-convenience story filled with family loyalties, forged letters, and unexpected tenderness.

A clean and wholesome Regency romance with kisses only, no explicit content, no profanity, and a happy ending guaranteed.

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