The release date for the English version of 'To Love and to Loathe' by
Martha Waters is Apr 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In English high society, the widowed Diana, Lady Templeton, and Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham, are notorious for their flirting and acerbic sparring. An quarrel at a ball one evening escalates into a bet that really matters: either Diana forfeits one hundred pounds or Jeremy marries within the year. Thus, Diana is taken aback when Jeremy pays her a visit soon after, right before a two-week house party at Jeremy's country estate, Elderwild. He brings a totally different kind of proposal.
Jeremy needs comfort after his most recent mistress negatively criticized his bedroom talents, so he turned to the only person he can truly trust to be completely honest. While at the home party, he offers that they have a brief affair. Diana, who is widowed, can use the chatter to signal to other gentlemen that she is interested in taking a lover, and Jeremy can get a straight-forward assessment of his bedroom talents.
Diana believes that accepting his counterproposal will only help her win the bet. Diana is sure that she will win because she is in the bedroom and Jeremy's marriage-minded grandmother, the formidable Dowager Marchioness of Willingham, is assisting in matching the attractive ladies at Elderwild with suitable partners. However, they risk losing their own hearts in the process of winning bets.