While it is the fifth in the Bastion Club series of regency romantic novels, TO DISTRACTION also works as a standalone, featuring the romantic travails of Deverell, Viscount Paignton. Readers familiar with Stephanie Laurens's work will be delighted to find familiar characters from many other Bastion Club novels, as well as her well-loved Cynsters books.

In desperate need of a wife, Deverell, Viscount Paignton, enlists the aid of his aunt to find him the perfect wife, sending him to a country house party where he finds his prospective bride, Phoebe Malleson, with her nose buried in a book, determined to avoid marriage to promote the secret cause to which she is committed. Original.

In desperate need of a wife, Deverell, Viscount Paignton, enlists the aid of his aunt to find him the perfect wife, sending him to a country house party where he finds his prospective bride, Phoebe Malleson, with her nose buried in a book, determined to avoid marriage to promote the secret cause to which she is committed. Original.