Title: A Lady’s Guide to Scandal

Series: A Lady’s Guide #2

Author: Sophie Irwin

When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season–no matter that he was not the husband Eliza would have chosen.

But ten years later, Eliza is widowed. And at eight and twenty years, she is suddenly left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. Instead of living out her mourning quietly, Eliza heads to Bath with her cousin Margaret. After years of living according to everyone else’s rules, Eliza has resolved, at last, to do as she wants.

But when the ripples of the dowager Lady Somerset’s behavior reach the new Lord Somerset–whom Eliza knew, once, as a younger woman–Eliza is forced to confront the fact that freedom does not come without consequences, though it also brings unexpected opportunities . . .

I loved A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting so grabbed the audiobook of this from the library.

No one warned me it was a love triangle. Oh I loathe them but I wanted to see if it was cushioned by historical romance!

Poor old Eliza hasn’t been able to make a decision about her own life all her life until her husband dies and she inherits money and property and hot foots it off to Bath with her cousin to get away from her money grabbing family.

Then Eliza lives, she breathes, she has freedom and she meets 2 men vying for her affections.

I love reading about this time period and all that goes on but I really don’t think I would’ve survived in that period without being deemed mad! Poor Eliza, I felt so bad for her!

My fave character however was Eliza’s cousin, Margaret. She was so funny and a loyal companion.

I didnt love this as much as the first book but it was still a good read.