title: Three Schemes and a Scandal (A Writing Girls Novella)
author:  Maya Rodale 
description: <b><span>"Delightful, frothy fun with an irrepressible heroine. One of the best."</span><br /><i>--Fresh Fiction</i></b><br /><br /><b><span>"</span><span>If you need a quick pick me up with a feisty heroine and dashing hero, a runaway fox, and a scheme so romantic it will make your heart melt, this is the perfect novella for you!"</span><br /><i>--Rogues Under The Covers</i></b><br /><br /><b>"This book met all of my requirements: a charming hero, a fiesty heroine, and a thrilling chase to the happily ever after."<br /><i>--The Examiner</i></b><em> </em>
zlib_text: Eleven Scandals to Start
  
  to Win a Duke’s Heart
  
  Sarah MacLean
  
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  Dedication
  
  For Carrie,
  
  with love and gratitude.
  
  Thanks for getting me
  
  back to Base Camp.
  
  Un momento con una donna capricciosa
  
  vale undici anni di vita noiosa.
  
  A single moment with a fiery female
  
  is worth eleven years of a boring life.
  
  (Italian Proverb)
  
  Contents
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Chapter Eighteen
  
  Chapter Nineteen
  
  Chapter Twenty
  
  Epilogue
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  About the Author
  
  By Sarah MacLean
  
  ASCENSION Sneak Peek
  
  Copyright
  
  About the Publisher
  
  Chapter One
  
  Trees are nothing but a canopy for scandal.Elegant ladies remain indoors after
  dark.
  
  —A Treatise on the Most Exquisite of Ladies  
  We hear that leaves are not the only things falling in gardens .