Ruth's Reviews > The Scoundrel and the Scientist

Miss Chloe Penbrook took over her father’s soap making business due to his age. She wanted to make it on her own and not depend on anyone else. She was going to enter a business competition and if she won, she would be on Bond Street.

Barney Ashbourne is the 2nd son of a Duke. He was walking sneezing away and bumped into something and he ended up falling through an open door. He realized it was a soap store, but he wasn’t sneezing. He is by the counter and picks up a glass bottle with liquid in it and ends of dropping it. He notices her eyes and something about her. Barney ends up slipping on the soap and goes down again taking Chloe with him. He ends of kissing her and she enjoyed it and ended up pushing him away.

He set up Chloe to meet Bridget and they discussed her making a soap liquid dispenser for her. Barney shows up and she wasn’t happy. He takes Chloe home and he rushes into her shop, and she collided into him, and stuff got shattered. She tells him to go he can’t fix it.

Chloe goes to Bridget and Bridget introduce her betrothed to her the Duke. She figured they could discuss her soap. And the Ashbourne mine potash which you use in your soap. Barney shows up and the Duke calls him brother, and Chloe was in shock. Chloe and Barney work thru their misgivings and agree to marry.

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