The Perfect Rose

Being the perfect rose of the season isn’t all it’s cut out to be.

Lady Rose Gardner strives to live up to her name—the perfect flower—flawless, beautiful, accomplished, and confident, but her efforts always seem to come up short. When she finds she is unable to fulfill her parents’ expectations of a brilliant match to a titled gentleman, the Earl and Countess Gardner give her an ultimatum she cannot ignore: secure the marriage she was raised for right away, or be promised to an unscrupulous fortune hunter of noble birth.

Frederick Hastings typically has a knack for making people happy. But Lady Rose Gardner and her dragon of a mother are the exception. As much fun as it is to needle the haughty Lady Rose, Frederick discovers that he needs her help to save his house party from utter failure. What she asks in return challenges some of his most deeply held beliefs. 

Roses, it turns out, are not perfect. But Frederick learns that they are real, fragile, and entirely worth sacrificing for. With Lady Rose’s time to choose a husband coming to a swift end, can the two of them find a way to fight for the happiness they both desire?

Being enchanting as a bluebell tends to cause trouble.

No one knows the woods as well as Lady Bluebell Gardner—they are hers after all—and she likes to keep them to herself. When she meets a skeptical, handsome gentleman in her sanctuary, she attempts to usher him out only to find herself in a bigger entanglement than even her fanciful imagination could procure…which is saying something. 

Logical Mr. Nathaniel Payne always has a plan, and he typically sticks to it—but he impulsively decides to pick some flowers for his grandmother in the charming bluebell woods as he travels to meet her. When an enchanting young woman emerges from the foliage, he is as shocked as he is smitten. His stunning new companion simultaneously makes him want to pull his hair out and kiss her. He chooses the latter…and now he is dealing with all the consequences of ruining a lady. 

When Lady Bluebell and Mr. Payne are forced to marry, neither of them is happy with the arrangement. Will Nathaniel and Bell make each other miserable, or will they fight to make their dreams of family and true love a reality?