Jean Wilde

A Gentleman's Bidding Jean Wilde

Miss Emily Price is in desperate need of funds. With her family estate mortgaged and her young brother not yet of age, it falls to her to save her family from financial ruin. What is a lady with no title or connections to do? Auction her virginity at London's most elite and notorious brothel. Heir to a baronetcy, James Hughes has always taken his role seriously. His middle-class roots and career as an engineer dictate his need to marry into the peerage for his sake, as well as, his family's. But when he finds himself by chance at an auction in the infamous Scarlet Salon, he throws his ambitions to the wind to bed the lovely Miss Price. When news of their affair goes public in the biggest gossip rag in town, Emily must choose whether to cast her feelings aside and leave James to pursue his societal ambitions, while James must decide if family and duty are worth giving up his chance for love.