The Gentle Sex — Paula Allardyce

1750, England.

Beautiful and headstrong Mary Ann had always lived in a sheltered world -- until the day her pretty maid's romantic indiscretion forced Mary Ann to confront the worldly and licentious Edward Carradine.

Out of this explosive meeting came the most unlikely love ever to scandalize Georgian London.

But one woman was determined that this unusual couple would never reach the altar, Edward's exquisite but low-born mistress, Sophy Devereux, was both dangerously seductive and dangerously connected -- and she was not above using her unsavory friends from the Pleasure Gardens to achieve her ends!