How to woo a gentleman—and weaponize dessert.Romance novel junkie Eliza Pepper always thought she was born too late, but now shereally is stuck in the wrong time. Tasked with mending a tear in the timeline, she’s tryingdesperately to fit into 1873 London. But dang it, mucking out a fireplace while looking likethe lunch lady from hell is hard.If she can just keep from setting the floor on fire and somehow resist her growingattraction to the master of the house, she’ll be fine. All she has to do is repeat her mantra:“He’s nothing like Darcy. He’s nothing like Darcy.”William Brown has always taken pride in his mastery of English decorum, but his newmaid is a complete disaster, has thrown his household into chaos…and he finds her utterlycaptivating.Though he’s willing to endure extreme physical discomfort to keep their relationshipin proper perspective, her arrival has brought out a side of him he never knew existed.And Eliza has an innocently erotic knack for coaxing that decidedly ungentlemanly facet ofhimself out to play…Warning: A modern girl who knows bupkis about nursing and maiding in the 19thcentury, a gentleman poet with a repressed wild side, and inappropriate use of a pair ofpantaloons.