Paid on Delivery

She can imitate anyone in Bath. Trusting someone with her real self is another matter.Miss Susannah Vosper knows every subscriber at The Quill—and can mimic most of them. From solemn clergymen to indignant dowagers, nobody escapes her performances. She keeps the library's ledger, makes her family laugh, and ensures no one looks too closely at what lies beneath the merriment.For twenty-four years, Portsmouth has whispered about the timing of her birth. Susannah is certain no respectable man will ever risk his name on hers.Then the family's home comes under attack.A banker's lawsuit challenges their ownership of The Quill. A forged edition of their anonymous advice sheet appears in the Pump Room, offering appalling counsel and a supposed confession that points straight to their door.Someone means to ruin them—and knows which secrets to use.Enter Mr. Valentine Ormsby, who has apparently mistaken a family crisis for his cue.Charming, theatrical, and heir to an earldom, Valentine has come to Bath to direct Lady Tolland's amateur players. Instead, he appoints himself The Quill's champion.Nobody invited him. Honoria Pell is horrified. Susannah finds him increasingly difficult to resist.But a man reputed to have kept an actress can scarcely quiet the gossip surrounding her. And for a woman accustomed to turning hurt into laughter, his attention raises a frightening possibility: that he might see through the performance and still wish to stay.With the lawsuit threatening their home and the forger preparing another blow, Susannah must help protect the family whose good name she has always feared damaging.She can borrow any voice she pleases. This time, she will have to trust her own.Paid on Delivery is Book Seven of The Ladies of the Lion's Mouth series and a complete summer romance in its own right—a witty, tender story of amateur theatricals, forged confessions, and two performers discovering what they dare mean sincerely.A clean and wholesome Regency romance with a gentle mystery, kisses only, no explicit content, no profanity, and a happy ending guaranteed.