About the Book
Lady Harriet Worthington’s passions are strictly culinary. She runs a bakery, a mill, a household — and her own life. Having weathered one philandering husband, she’s sworn never to wed again.
Elias Westwood, her partner in a West Indies spice company, is at his wit’s end. Harriet has been selling off shares of their business — and distributing the proceeds to help her neighbors — until he is nearly ruined.
He plots to win them back, but Elias’s extraordinary gifts of smell and taste — so useful in judging fine spices — prove his Achilles’s heel. Harriet’s garlic-buttered prawns enchant. Her Turkish trifle intoxicates. Elias cannot resist her culinary creations — or, it turns out, her feminine charms.
When she maneuvers him into masquerading as her fiancé for the Season, he never plans on falling in love…
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Author's Note
Once I wrote a book entitled Reforming Harriet. This is not that book.
When I reread that original story last year, I didn’t like it. Why were my hero and heroine always angry? Why was the hero, Elias, so thoroughly unlikable? The answer was that I mistook anger for passion and, as any decent romance writer knows, they are not the same.
Turns out I didn’t know these characters very well. I had to rewrite them to understand them. Elias now has a beguiling combination of strength and vulnerability, which I had missed the first time. And — how to put this? — he is perhaps the most unselfish romantic partner any woman could have. How he helps Harriet come to understand her true worth is — well, it’s in the book.
Food is still key to the story—it’s a metaphor for their developing romance—and there’s a wonderful recipe at the end. But I have rewritten the entire story, and I hope you’ll give it a try.
The Details
Published: June 4, 2016
Publisher: Eileen Putman
Formats: EbookPaperbackAudiobook
ISBN-10: 1533242887ISBN-13: 978-1533242884ASIN: B01GN9663Q
Genres & Tropes
Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Regency Era, Rogue, Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity 
