Fake princess. Real feelings. Very bad timing.

Liberty "Libba" Lennox was born to perform.

An actress by trade, she can transform herself into anyone the stage demands. But when her brother's dangerously charming best friend drags her into his latest scheme, Libba finds herself cast in the most demanding role of her career: Princess Xandine of the Bedouai, a glittering foreign fiancée whose fortune is large enough to tempt and manipulate the powerful Templeton-Rath shipping dynasty.

Jasper Townsend has been planning his big break since childhood.

A Brighton shipyard boy with big dreams and no fortune, he's finally found his chance: the Templeton-Raths are coming to town, and their plain but practical heiress daughter needs a husband. Jasper knows he can’t compete with every hopeful swain in Brighton, but if he’s already "engaged" to someone glamorous enough to set aside for true love, he might have an incredible future on the horizon. It's the perfect scheme, isn’t it? He just needs his best mate’s little sister to help out. Just a little favor. Just a temporary, a brilliant diversion. Absolutely nothing could go wrong.

But Libba has never played small.

With every staged kiss, every invented accent, every dazzling performance, Libba reminds Jasper how incredible she is. And how impossible it would be to ever want someone else.

Soon, the man who meant to discard her is improvising a future that doesn't work without her. And the actress who spent her whole life becoming other people must decide whether the greatest role she'll ever play is the one where she finally gets to be herself.

Little Miss Nobody is a Regency romance full of fake engagements that feel too real, witty banter, and two childhood friends discovering they've been in love all along. It's the second book in The Starling Legacy series and can be read as a standalone. If you love actresses in disguise, charming, working-class boys with ambition, righteous pub fights, cat rescues, and schemes that go sideways for love—this book belongs in your collection.

Tropes you'll enjoy:

• Fake engagement
• Childhood friends to lovers
• Brother's best friend
• Actress heroine
• Trickster hero
• Forced proximity
• Found family
• Regency Brighton
• Slow burn

The Starling Legacy Series

Book 1 - Fluently Speaking Baron

Book 2 - Little Miss Nobody

Book 3 - The Trick of It

Book 4 - Between the Seams

Book 5 - Against All Odds

Book 6 - As Nature Intended