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The Ruined Reputation: A Delightfully Scandalous Historical Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 450
Weight: 0.88
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She has one Season to make her sisters respectable, or make herself notorious enough to be disowned. She has costed both.
Miss Delia Wrottesley was ruined at seventeen by eleven hours of waiting at a coaching inn and eleven lines in a scandal sheet. Seven years later she arrives in London with nothing left to lose and two unpresented sisters who have everything.
Mr Adam Killigrew is a Cornish attorney's son with four printing houses, no title, and the worst manners in Grosvenor Square. When a card-room door is opened on Delia at a ball, deliberately, by the family that destroyed hers forty years ago, he announces their engagement before the room can decide what she is.
The terms are drawn up and signed the following morning. Three months of performed devotion. His name and his fortune at her disposal. A public jilting at the end of the Season, performed by her, so that he is pitied and she is the woman who refused.
The contract does not cover what happens next. That she turns out to be dazzlingly good at being scandalous. That he keeps quietly killing the paragraphs that would finish her. That the man who owns every printed word in London has been carrying eleven lines about her in his own cellar, and has not said so.
London will have the whole truth by June. Delia intends to be the one who prints it.
Three girls swore they would survive the Season. By June, the Season was struggling to survive them.
Fake engagement. Forced proximity. A heroine ruined by the newspaper her fiancé owns. A self-made hero with no title and no intention of apologising for it. Found family, formidable dowagers, and a scandal sheet with an appetite. Open door. THE RUINED REPUTATION is the first in The Disaster Debutantes: three friends, one Season, and the most delicious scandals in England. Each book is a complete romance with a happy ending. Content note: explicit, consensual open-door sexual content. Public shaming and ruin, class prejudice, period misogyny and legal powerlessness, parental neglect, and a jilting, all rendered on the page.Also in
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