Much Ado about Lavender: A Regency Novella

When Miss Lavender Montgomery decides that her next family reader’s theater production will be Much Ado about Nothing--the classic duel of barbs between witty Beatrice and Benedick--she has no idea she is about to meet her own Benedick.
Lord Aiken Fairmont has recently come into his title after the murder of his brother on the steps of White’s. All at once it seems that Miss Lavender Montgomery (who would give a female such an outrageous name?) is appearing everywhere he goes.
Like Beatrice, Lavender has a poor opinion of the male sex, and Lord Fairmont has no time in his life for a female. Dangerous circumstances do not favor the development of a romance between these two, but when did love ever wait for an opportune time?