The Secret to Swooning

Swooning is dangerous. Unless you fall into the right rake’s arms.

When Lady Ann Martins fails to land the proper lord of her parents’ dreams, she must figure out how to avoid the dreaded shelf. Will swooning work? Only, her mother insists, if she swoons into the right man’s arms.
Viscount Dartmore has always been more rake than right. Until he met Lady Ann. Now he’s reformed. For her. But she has no idea. Can he prove he’s the perfect gentleman rake for her before she falls into another man’s arms?
When a tea party throws them together, she’ll swoon with perfection precision, and he’ll catch her, whichever way she sways.

In this Jane Austen inspired short story, featuring the villain you love to hate—Lady Catherine de Bourgh—swooning is dangerous… unless you fall into the right rake’s arms.