Fortune's Flower

Book excerpt: From USA Today, RITA-nominated author Anthea Lawson comes this full-length Victorian romantic adventure full of wit, adventure, and plenty of passion! Searching for more fun and sexy romance like Bridgerton? Give this series a try! Miss Lily Strathmore has made a desperate bargain. One last adventure abroad with her botanist uncle and his family, and then she will do as her parents bid and wed the proper (and boring) viscount her mother has selected as Lily's ideal husband. James Huntington is on a mission. Retrieve his grandfather's lost journals from the wilds of Tunisia, and win the estate and fortune he so desperately needs. This quest will be the making of him--or his ruin. Thrown together on a botanical expedition, James and Lily's attraction is immediate, and impossible. Despite every reason to keep their distance, the two find themselves inexorably drawn together as they race to reach a hidden valley before their enemies can bring all their dreams crashing down. "A lush, exotic tale of romance and adventure." - Sally MacKenzie, USA Today bestselling author *Originally published as PASSIONATE by Kensington Books KEYWORDS: Victorian Romance, Spicy Romance, Romantic Adventure, Road Romance, Exotic Locale, Botanical Expedition, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Courtney Milan, Mary Balogh, Tunisia, Sherry Thomas, Meredith Duran, Carolyn Jewel, Bridgerton, Julia Quinn, Erica Ridley, Duke, The Duke and I, English nobility, exciting romance, historical romancing the stone, sensual romance, Grace Calloway, Eloisa James, Grace Burroughs