![]() ![]() Phinn has also decided to look about for a second wife, and when, at a ball, he sees Olivia and hears of her reputation for propriety, decides he has found her. Lord Phineas Radcliffe is a widower and a young man of scientific bent who has come to London in order to work with the Duke of Ashbrooke (hero of book one in the series) on building his Difference Engine. Not surprisingly, Olivia is aghast at the prospect, but her protests fall on deaf ears. ![]() Olivia’s desperation is also felt by her parents who are, by now, anxious to get her married off, as is evident by her father’s willingness to accept an offer for her hand from a man known throughout society as the “Mad Baron”, who is believed to have killed his first wife. ![]() She has done everything expected of her, and behaved exactly as a well brought-up young lady should behave, and yet “being good” has got her precisely nowhere, and she is beginning to chafe against the constant strictures imposed by her overbearing mother. Now in her fourth season, Olivia despairs of ever finding a husband. The heroine of this book, the second in Maya Rodale’s Wallflower series is Olivia Archer, a young lady with a reputation for such unbending propriety that she has been nicknamed “London’s Least Likely to Cause a Scandal.” ![]()
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