My Fake Mistress: An Age Gap Historical Romance

Alivia Fleur

Jan 1900 · Heartbeats of History: Steamy Historical Romance Shorts Book 4 · Spencer & Co Publishing

About this ebook

Lord Julian Ashford, Baron Moncrief, detests London. Detests society. Since his wife died over a decade ago, he has had little thought for anything other than his own grief. Filling his life with work and duty, he exists as a shell of his former self. And while he can think of nothing worse than entertaining a hoard of freeloading guests, the weekend house party is his daughter’s celebration, and while happiness eludes him, he would do anything for her.

Blythe Flintwood knows a thing or two about the hard knocks life can throw at a girl. Orphaned, alone, and reliant on her skills as an art conservator to pay her way, she appreciates the small things. A beautiful painting. A special friendship. A weekend house party at a country estate to celebrate her best friend’s birthday. She takes nothing for granted.

If only the grubby old lords in attendance would stop propositioning her at every opportunity.

If only they would listen to her when she tells them she’s not interested.

But they are powerful men, accustomed to getting what they want, especially when it comes to women like herself.

So, to keep them at a distance, she tells a lie. Just a little lie.

She tells them she is mistress to her best friend’s father.

And when she tells Julian what she has done, he, unbelievably, agrees to

play along.

My Fake Mistress was previously released as part of the Love for Maui anthology.

My Fake Mistress is a steamy novella set in the late Victorian era. Its main tropes are best friend’s father, age gap, blue stocking and widower baron. With a guaranteed HEA, My Fake Mistress has HOT consensual scenes. It includes strong language and sexy times.

This novel also contains themes of parental death, spouse loss, grief and misogyny that some audiences may find confronting.

Ratings and reviews

This is a tender age-gap story. Lord Julian Ashford has had no desire to be part of London society sine his wife died a decade ago. At a house party for his daughter, he meets her friend Blythe Flintwood. Blythe enjoys and is quite good at the restoration of art work. What started as fake courtship became something very real between Julian and Blythe. Both have reasons for avoiding marriage, but they have fallen in love and find a happy ending, even though it is a bit unusual.

very steamy and the smoke is still there. The story wonderful and felt bad when it ended quickly when you are used to read 400 pages of blah blah. The authoress has wonderful grip and she could communicate her thoughts beautifully in just 6 chapters..A beautiful experience.

This was a beautifully written engaging age gap best friends father historical romance. It was steamy and poignant with lovely historical details. I enjoyed the characters' chemistry and its lovely ending. I highly recommend reading!