title: The Dangers of Deceiving a Viscount (Desperate Debutantes, Book 3)
author:  Julia London 
description: <i>Starred Review.</i> With this singular, outstanding Regency romance, London concludes the Desperate Debutante series at the top of her game. Lady Phoebe Fairchild is a talented seamstress who sews dresses for an exclusive London Bond Street shop, but knows that if her job is revealed, it will expose her family's financial woes to the <i>ton</i> and ruin their reputationnot to mention Phoebe's marriage prospects. Knowing this, her employer threatens to expose Phoebe if she refuses to travel to rural Bedfordshire to sew gowns at the home of William Darby, Viscount Summerfield. Phoebe reluctantly agrees, and posing as widowed dressmaker Madame Dupree, she travels to Summerfield's estate to create gowns for his wild, untamed sisters. Soon, Phoebe and Will are involved in an intense affair that's very likely doomed, as Will must wed a noblewomanwhich Phoebe is, but Madame Dupree is not. Should she reveal her deceit, making her a worthy bride for Summerfield? Or should she keep up the charade, lest he despise her for her duplicity? As London explores the intricate, authentic-feeling relationships blossoming among the players, her masterful ability to bring characters to life makes this romance entirely absorbing. <i>(Nov.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Danger of Deceiving a Viscount
  
  Desperate Debutantes Book 3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Julia London
  
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  Prologue
  
  BEDFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND  
  1822
  
  W illiam Darby, Viscount Summerfield, Baron Ivers, rode the last mile to
  Wentworth Hall full bore. The letter from his father’s secretary was in his
  breast pocket, stained red by the sands of the Egyptian desert, smelling of
  salt from the passage across the Mediterranean, and tattered at the folds from
  Will’s frequent reading of it.
  
  The earl has suffered a terrible fit of apoplexy that has left him paralyzed.
  You are needed at home, sir.
  
  In the six years since Will had left Wentworth Hall to take his grand tour of
  Europe—a tour his father had urged a restless young man of two and twenty to
  take before duty and responsibility claimed him—he’d received many letters
  from his father. In the first letters, the earl had exulted in the sights Will
  had seen and the adventures he’d experienced, as related we