She composed the music that marched England to glory. Admitting it would ruin her.

Olivia Delancey wrote the march that carried British soldiers into the guns at Waterloo. All of England has hummed it. No one can ever know a woman put pen to the page.

For years she's let society see only what it expects - an accomplished, marriageable, agreeably dull young lady. But when her engagement collapses and her family's prospects go with it, Olivia stakes everything on one reckless plan: sell her finest composition under the name of a wounded veteran who needs the money far more than she needs the credit. All she requires is a publisher willing to ask no questions.

Will Marsh asks nothing but questions. The sharp, ink-stained owner of The Beacon prints the truths the ton would rather keep buried, and he can smell a secret on Olivia the moment they meet. A war hero, a phantom composer, a polished lady who flushes at all the wrong moments - it's exactly the story to save his struggling paper.

What neither of them counts on is wanting the other more than the win.

As the deception tightens and the season's hunger for scandal sharpens, Olivia and Will must choose between the safe lives they've built and a future that could destroy them both.

A Note of Scandal is a standalone Regency romance for readers of Manda Collins and Mary Lancaster - grittier than a ballroom, with a heroine who's anything but proper and a hero who lives by his pen.