The Reluctant Reformer

The Lady X, a masked courtesan, is reputedly a noblewoman who's fallen on hard times. Lord James knows Lady X--but does not know she is Lady Margaret Wentworth, the feisty sister of his best friend who had forced James to vow to protect Maggie. But is she? When he tracks her down to a house of ill repute, what other explanation is there but that Maggie is London's most enigmatic wanton? Previously published as (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39402.The_Reluctant_Reformer) The Reluctant Reformer Lady Maggie Wentworth must support herself as an investigative reporter. Writing under another name, shes been exposing the notorious scandals of the ton this time its the working girls of London. While interviewing the women, a client enters, and Maggie is shocked to see her beau. She changes clothes with one of the girls and flees out the window, only to be whisked away by a stranger. Lord James is honoring a deathbed promise: watch over his late friends sister. Following Maggie to a house of ill repute, hes stunned to see her emerge dressed as the notorious Lady X! Hard times must have driven her to such a desperate act, and he is intent on reforming the wanton chit. No amount of protest will stop him from saving her reputation. Now if only he can hold his own desires in checkand keep himself from falling in love. When Lord James discovers that the notorious courtesan known as Lady X is Margaret Wentworth, his best friend's sister, he follows her to a house of ill repute and forcefully rescues her from her own folly, and as she tries to convince him that she was never Lady X, he sets out to reform the lucious hoyden, only to find himself falling in love with her. Original.