The lady plays with fire - susanna craig

In this Bridgerton era Youve Got Mail, the clever, popular, and deliciously shocking ladies periodical Mrs.

Goodes Magazine for Misses o nly employs women who are equal to the challenge--and for one biting theatre critic, that challenge happens to include romance.

A fast-paced, innovative, sexy historical romance with a modern twist that readers of Sabrina Jeffries, Sarah MacLean, and Julia Quinn will adore.

As the daughter of a clergyman, Julia Addison knows shell never be able to fulfill her lifelong dream of acting on the stage.

But writing forthright reviews of the Seasons most popular plays for Mrs.

Goodes Magazine for Misses , popularly known as Goodes Guide to Misconduct is surely the next best thing.

Even better, shes got a ticket to Ransom Blackadders latest irritating satire about English society.

Best of all, shes sharing a theater box with the gruff but handsome Lord Dunstane, which is enough to make Julia call for an encore .

Graham McKay, the Earl of Dunstane, rarely leaves his home in the Scottish Highlands.

Why would he? Nothing about London has ever held his interest--until he meets Julia.

But when Graham realizes she is the critic who panned his last play--and she discovers he is in fact the man behind Blackadders wicked pen--will it bring down the curtain on their romance--not to mention the magazine that published the humiliating review? Or can an unexpected collaboration set the stage for a scandalous love affair?.