{"description": "IDEAL\r\nThe heir to the Earl of Hargate, Benedict Carsington, Viscount Rathbourne, is the perfect aristocrat. Tall, dark, and handsome, he is known for his impeccable manners and good breeding. Benedict knows all the rules and has no trouble following them\u2014until she enters his life.\r\nINFAMOUS\r\nBathsheba Wingate belongs to the rotten branch of the DeLucey family: a notorious lot of liars, frauds, and swindlers. Small wonder her husband\u2019s high-born family disowned him. Now widowed, she\u2019s determined to give her daughter a stable life and a proper upbringing. Nothing and no one will disrupt Bathsheba\u2019s plans\u2014until he enters her life\u2026\r\n\r\nSCANDALOUS\r\nThen Bathsheba\u2019s hoyden daughter lures Benedict\u2019s precocious nephew into a quest for a legendary treasure. To recover the would-be knights errant, Benedict and Bathsheba must embark on a rescue mission that puts them in dangerous, intimate proximity. It\u2019s a situation virtually guaranteed to end in mayhem\u2014even scandal!\u2014if anyone else were involved. But Benedict is in perfect control of events. Perfect control, despite his mad desire to break all the rules. Perfect control. Really.", "title": "Lord Perfect", "covers": [273508, 6795889], "subjects": ["Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency", "Man-woman relationships, fiction", "Upper class, fiction", "Guardian and ward, fiction", "Widows, fiction", "Mothers and daughters, fiction", "Treasure troves, fiction", "Man-woman relationships", "Fiction"], "key": "/works/OL14933233W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL24763A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["Regency Era"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["London England"], "subject_people": ["Bathsheba Wingate", "Benedict Carsington Viscount Rathbourne"], "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-03-12T22:19:20.663229"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-08T03:30:48.377790"}}