The Ruin of Miss Everly
An interactive regency romance · with Lord Ashworth
You have to be ruined before the wedding, so you pick the most notorious man in London and tell him to make you the twelfth.
Your choices shape how Ashworth responds.
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- Love interest
- Lord Ashworth
- Genre
- Regency romance
- Length
- ~1½ hours
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About The Ruin of Miss Everly
Your family's debts have bought you a husband you didn't choose, and the wedding date is set. There is exactly one door a lady can still walk out of: ruin. Thorough, public, beyond repair.
So you seek out the most notorious man in London. Lord Ashworth has ruined eleven women, if the gossip is right, and has never once looked sorry about it.
You make him an offer no respectable woman has ever said out loud.
Make me the twelfth.
He has heard every proposition London has to offer. He has never heard this one.
“Society has moved on to some other ruin. I confess I have not.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
I give him all of it in ninety seconds. The notes. The interest. Saturday. Bexley’s price and Bexley’s dead wife and my father looking at the carpet.
“Compromise me. Publicly, badly, in front of somebody who talks. Nothing has to actually happen. Then go abroad and leave me the rest of it.”
ASHWORTH
“No.”
“I beg your pardon?”
ASHWORTH
“No. I won’t do it.”
“You’ve done it eleven times.”
ASHWORTH
“So they tell me.”
He puts both hands on the rail.
ASHWORTH
“Ruin doesn’t free you. Bexley withdraws — good. Your father is still nine thousand pounds down on Monday, and the next man won’t come with a teapot. And your sister gets the leavings of your name for the rest of her life.”
He is right, and I did not do that sum, because I did not want the answer.
“Then I’ve wasted your evening. Good nigh—”
ASHWORTH
“I didn’t say I wouldn’t help. I said I wouldn’t ruin you.”
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Questions
Is The Ruin of Miss Everly free to read?
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Who is the love interest in The Ruin of Miss Everly?
Lord Ashworth. The Ruin of Miss Everly is an interactive regency romance where your choices shape what happens with Ashworth, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is The Ruin of Miss Everly?
An interactive regency romance built on he falls first, protective hero and arranged marriage. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is The Ruin of Miss Everly?
About 1½ hours of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.