This HaBO comes from Marina, who wants to find this historical romance. Trigger warning for the description below:
I think this was a regency era setting.
The protagonist goes with stepmother and her daughter to a house party. She is not well treated by them. They secretly plan to entrap a titled rich guy into marriage. The daughter invited him to go to her room at night. He enters the protagonist’s room by mistake and starts making love to her, but since she was given laudanum she thinks it is a dream. (This was done to her so she would not hear what would go on next door.) When the stepmother goes to her daughter’s room – as planned – to find her daughter and “lover” in flagrante delicto, he’s not there but can hear them talking about their plan and is saved.
I can’t remember the rest and it’s making me crazy. I don’t even remember if I finished it. Can anyone help?
Wowza!
