Georgina Vine
The Earl's Forbidden Wallflower
He left her a wallflower with a broken heart. He's about to meet the woman she built in his absence.
Five years ago, Lady Beatrice Winterbourne was the wallflower nobody noticed — except the one man who did, and then vanished without a word. Now she's poised, sharp-tongued, and courted by half of London, including the steady, honourable Lord Ashcombe. She has no intention of waiting for Sebastian Vale to explain himself.
Except Sebastian's back — titled, ruined, and still looking at her as though five years were nothing at all.
He's inherited an estate he can barely afford to heat, a reputation he can't outrun, and absolutely no right to be jealous of the men who court her. But when a house party puts Bea under his own roof for a week, Sebastian discovers that watching her laugh in another man's arms is a far worse arithmetic than anything in his ledgers.
Bea isn't the girl he left behind, and she's done waiting to be chosen. Some old debts, though — the financial kind, and the kind owed to a woman's heart — have a way of coming due at exactly the same time.
