A CABINET OF FALSE GODS: Scarlet Somerset Scandals

A CABINET OF FALSE GODSShe has spent a decade doing her father's work under his name. He has been sent to prove that work is a lie.Miss Cordelia Marsh has authenticated Egyptian antiquities for the British Museum's Trustees for ten years, under her ailing father's signature, because a woman's name on a provenance report would be dismissed before anyone read past it. When a new shipment crosses her workroom bench and the plaster feels wrong beneath her fingers before her mind catches up to explain why, she knows: someone has forged a three-thousand-year-old stela, and staked her father's reputation on it.Alaric Grantham is the Trustees' inquiry agent, sent to trace the forgery to its source, and his own family's fortune was quietly built on antiquities that never should have left Egypt in the first place. He doesn't expect the real expert behind the Marsh name to be the daughter. He doesn't expect her to be right about him too.As the investigation pulls them from London's grandest auction rooms to its filthiest dockside warehouses, both discover that the closer they get to the truth, the more they stand to lose, her father's name, his family's, and a heart neither of them planned on risking. Somewhere between a cabinet of forged gods and a considerably more genuine one, they must decide whether trusting each other is worth what it could cost them both.A Cabinet of False Gods is a witty, slow-burn Regency romance of forgery, found family, and a heroine who has spent far too long being underestimated, for readers who like their heroes patient, their heroines razor-sharp, and their happy endings thoroughly earned.