A Deal with a Debutante (London’s Most Eligible #1)

A Deal with a Debutante (London’s Most Eligible #1)

Author: Chelsea Bobulski Listening Length: 8h 45m
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She’s running from London’s marriage mart. He’s running out of time to save his estate. Neither planned on falling in love–but their hearts have other plans. American heiress Calliope Hart is thrust into London’s high society against her will, all because her mother is determined to marry her off to an aristocrat....

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Looking over their previously decided lineup of House of Worth gowns for the week, Mrs. Hart found herself second-guessing everything now that Edward would be joining them in their opera box.

She wanted Calliope to wear the ivory satin with the robin’s-egg-blue sash in order to put bridal thoughts into Edward’s mind, as well as into the minds of the rest of the gentlemen who would be in attendance (never mind the majority of marriageable bachelors did not ever actually have bridal thoughts, if they could help it), but Calliope managed to convince her that the midnight blue silk covered in tiny silver crystals so that it shone like the night sky beneath the lamplight was more suitable for the occasion.

She did not tell her mother that she wanted to wear the silk because it reminded her of Edward’s eyes, or that she hoped, upon seeing her in it, he would think she looked like a star herself.

A bright, shining beacon from which he could not look away, because for reasons she could not explain, she really liked it when his gaze met hers, something that had been happening much too infrequently the past few days.