Title: The Viscount’s Forbidden Flirtation
Author: Sarah Rodi
Published: March 2025
Genre: Regency Romance, Enemies-to-Friends-to-Lovers, Historical Romance, Harlequin Historical, Mills & Boon Historical, Forbidden Love, Love at First Sight

Blurb:

Four soldiers face their greatest battle yet – in the Regency marriage mart! Be enthralled by the second instalment of A Season to Wed.

A dance with temptation...

Sets his world ablaze!

Lieutenant Colonel Ezra Hart finds himself in urgent need of a wife – inheriting the viscountcy relies on it. But while he’s dutifully spinning the season’s jewels around society’s ballrooms, he finds himself desiring the one woman he shouldn’t covet...

French émigré Seraphine Mounier is as beguiling as she is vivacious, but Ezra knows she has no interest in the marriage mart. What’s worse, she represents the very enemy he fought at Waterloo. As an undeniable connection sparks, resisting Seraphine seems one battle Ezra’s destined to lose!

My Review:

Who would have thought that Sarah Rodi – known for her magical Viking stories – could write a Regency romance that completely melts your heart?

A life that both Seraphine and Ezra don’t fit into and yet they have to keep hiding who they really are...

One wrong word and Ezra finds himself duelling with a Frenchman, and suddenly fate brings him to a woman he shouldn’t desire – but can’t stop thinking about. Seraphine is a French émigré who keeps her distance from society to protect herself. After Ezra’s remark about émigrés, she wants nothing to do with him. But when her family faces injustice, Ezra steps in to help and tries to fix his mistake.

As they spend more time together, their hatred slowly turns into something deeper. I loved watching their enemies-to-friends-to-lovers journey filled with sweet, forbidden moments and real emotion. The class divide, the drama, the slow-burn to sizzling romance – it kept me hooked!

Seraphine is strong and kind, and Ezra is charming but struggling with his own worries. Their chemistry is real, and I couldn’t stop reading as, wanting to know how their love would survive against the weight of prejudice and the expectations of Ezra’s father. And – voilaaa... Sarah Rodi knows how to please her readers, the turn of events is truly satisfying and delightful.

This story has everything I love. A fascinating dramatic Regency setting, emotional depth and a love that grows when and where it shouldn’t! Thank you Sarah Rodi for the e-arc, which I voluntarily reviewed.

About the author

Sarah Rodi has always been a hopeless romantic. She grew up watching old romantic movies recommended by her granddad or devouring love stories from the local library. Sarah lives in the village of Cookham in Berkshire, where she enjoys walking along the River Thames with her husband, her two daughters and their dog. She has been a magazine journalist for over twenty years, but it has been her lifelong dream to write romance for Harlequin. Sarah believes everyone deserves to find their happy-ever-after. You can contact her via @sarahrodiedits or sarahrodiedits@gmail.com. Or visit her website at sarahrodi.com

picture and blurb source: goodreads.com