Simply Suitable
by Bailey Griffin
Catherine Richardson is intelligent and beautiful, but older bluestockings don't get many offers. Merrick Sinclair has no interest in marriage, but is always interested in women, in the plural. Thrown together as they try to decipher mysterious symbols and avert disaster, neither is prepared to decipher their feelings for each other.
Author Bailey Griffin’s Simply Suitable takes the reader on a wild and romantic ride, from coming out balls and English society, to spies working for King and Country, to the depths of the British Museum. Merrick Sinclair, Earl of Stonewick, notorious rake, and part-time spy is bored and in search of a Mistress among the girls and ladies of the season. But his hunt for carnal pleasures is waylaid when he encounters dangers in an assignment for the crown and love, in the form of Catherine Richardson. Catherine doesn’t want an arranged marriage; she wants romance and passion, at least once. When she uses her skills in ancient languages to translate part of a mystic scroll, she finds passion and danger. It’s a thrilling cat and mouse chase between both lovers and villains.
Author Bailey Griffin’s Simply Suitable takes the reader on a wild and romantic ride, from coming out balls and English society, to spies working for King and Country, to the depths of the British Museum. Merrick Sinclair, Earl of Stonewick, notorious rake, and part-time spy is bored and in search of a Mistress among the girls and ladies of the season. But his hunt for carnal pleasures is waylaid when he encounters dangers in an assignment for the crown and love, in the form of Catherine Richardson. Catherine doesn’t want an arranged marriage; she wants romance and passion, at least once. When she uses her skills in ancient languages to translate part of a mystic scroll, she finds passion and danger. It’s a thrilling cat and mouse chase between both lovers and villains.