Crossed Quills

A BRILLIANT POLITICAL ESSAYIST...

Philippa "Pippa" Lisle is more interested in politics than fashion. From Sweetbriar Cottage, she writes essays on the issues of the day, not daring to reveal herself as their author, the radical Prometheus. After all, what respectable gentleman would wed her if the truth were known that "she" was posing as a "he"? So when the disarmingly handsome Lord Selworth seeks Prometheus' literary help, Philippa is torn. She's sure if she accepts, her secret will be out.

A DASHING ROMANCE NOVELIST...

For years, Wynn Selworth supported his widowed mother and sister by writing Gothic romances under the pen name Valentine Dred. Now that his great-uncle has died and left him his title and estates, Wynn abandons his clandestine career for a seat in the House of Lords. But when he puts pen to paper, flowery images make a muddle of his maiden speech to Parliament. Fearing it will ruin his new career, he must enlist the help of the serious-minded Prometheus -- even if it means working with the man's go-between, the distractingly charming Pippa Lisle. Still, Wynn dare not divulge his past, for what proper young woman would tolerate the author of such infamous potboilers? It isn't long before rumor and gossip compel the literary pair to become hero and heroine of their own romantic drama -- and to struggle for the happiest of endings!

Hero: Wyn Selworth
Heroine: Philippa "Pippa" Lisle