Author: Tessa Dare
Original Title: A Week To Be Wicked
Release Year: 2012
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: England (Spindle Cove) and Scotland, regency
Series: 2° of Spindle Cove series
Vote: 91/2/10
Minerva Highwood would do everything for her two
sisters, Diana, the eldest, and the youngest Charlotte.
Diana (Beauty and the blacksmith) is the real
beauty of the family, she’s sweet and unfortunately a bit dainty;
there are rumours about the Viscount Payne's intention to court her
but he, Colin Sundhurst, is not exactly the perfect man, he is a
gambler with financial problems, he's a dissolute rake and he's a bit
disturbed too. Minerva knows that and she decides that he definitely
can't marry Diana.
Minerva is an extremely smart girl, her biggest passion is the geology; she spends the most of her time studying everything about the subject and during her research she finds out about some footprints that if demonstrate real might be considered one of the biggest discovery of the century. She wants to show the evidences of her study at the symposium settled in Edinburgh and hosted by the Royal Geological Society in a week time, but se needs an escort. To Achieve two things with one stroke, during a night she goes to the Viscount's home and, knowing that the man is in Spindle Cove against his will, Minerva makes him a proposal: five hundred guineas, so he could easly leave the place, in exchange of his promise to never marry Diana; but to gain the sum, Minerva has to win the symposium competition in Scotland and Colin should escort her through the journey.
