It’s one of those stories where you know exactly where things are headed, but every step in the journey is so soft and adorable that the fact you’ve been anticipating it for 100 pages already is part of the charm of the story. My Fake Rake is a delightful feel-good Regency romance. I present to you Lady Grace Wyatt: an absolute dumdum. It works! Before long, Grace is the toast of the ton.Įxcept…why is Sebastian giving her so many fluttery feelings? Why can’t she stop thinking about kissing him? What does he look like…NAKED?! With the help of a bemused duke and a thoroughly exasperated valet, Grace transforms Sebastian into the image of sartorial rakish elegance with the intent of making her crush jealous. He also has the soul of an earnestly clumsy Golden Retriever. Sebastian is a giant nerd with the body of a virile Viking warrior. And that requires help from her charmingly awkward anthropologist friend, Sebastian. And when her longtime crush comes back to England, she decides it’s time to take matters into her own hands.

She has friends she’s met through her studies, but lately…she wants more. Yet when he's faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future-and his heart.Īs a fledgling herpetologist and overall awkward bean, Lady Grace has spent most of her life on the outskirts of upperclass Regency society. Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. If only she hadn't hired him to help her marry someone else. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Grace's feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. In exchange for funding his passage on an expedition leaving London in a few months, Sebastian allows Grace to transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing-albeit fake-rake. Grace's colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. Her solution: to 'build' the perfect man, who will court her publicly and help her catch his eye.

But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches.

My fake rake