From USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell comes the next captivating installment in the McQuoid Family Saga. A cold, powerful shipping magnate. A penniless vicar’s daughter. When forced proximity sparks a steamy Regency enemies-to-lovers romance, London's most wicked bachelor finally meets his match.
Miss Seraphina Beaton has taken all she can stand. She’s putting out fires left and right'''literally and figuratively.
Taking on the responsibilities of caregiver for her younger siblings. Check. Helping her aging, vicar father care for his parish and parishioners. Check.
Past her marrying years...unfortunately, no check. She has a nefarious suitor, a father encouraging her to marry, and a useless older brother who’s been busy playing pirate all over the high seas and playing fancy gentleman with the Tremaine and McQuoid families. Determined to drag him back from London by his ears, his feet, or whatever means necessary (right after she strangles him), she heads to London to find him. What she finds instead...actually, a who—Mr. Campbell Smith.
Mr. Campbell Smith is a dutiful brother by day, the ruthless owner of a shipping empire by day and night—and by the very, very late hours, the master of his own dark, insatiable pleasures. With his siblings now married off, Campbell is finally free. Free. Free. Free. A wicked bachelor for life, answerable to no one but his own demanding appetites.
Then Miss Seraphina Beaton shows up. Asking for help. No, demanding. The fiery minx doesn’t ask for anything. She takes. Her sheer audacity drives him mad. He doesn’t know whether to spank her or kiss her or more. And with every second they spend together, he finds himself craving that ‘more’, even harder.
With all the ways she’s turning him upside down, he’ll be happy when she’s gone. Won’t he? Except the closer that time comes, the less sure Campbell is. About his dream of staying a bachelor. About her being a burden.
About letting her go.
Heat Level: High Heat (Expect plenty of wicked pleasures)
***Can be read as a standalone!
The Books in the McQuoid Family Saga:
While You Were Sailing (A Prequel Short Novel to the Saga)
The Villain
The Beast
The Forsaken
The Rake--Coming December 2026
Next Installment-Coming February 2027
Genre: Historical Romance
Miss Seraphina Beaton has taken all she can stand. She’s putting out fires left and right'''literally and figuratively.
Taking on the responsibilities of caregiver for her younger siblings. Check. Helping her aging, vicar father care for his parish and parishioners. Check.
Past her marrying years...unfortunately, no check. She has a nefarious suitor, a father encouraging her to marry, and a useless older brother who’s been busy playing pirate all over the high seas and playing fancy gentleman with the Tremaine and McQuoid families. Determined to drag him back from London by his ears, his feet, or whatever means necessary (right after she strangles him), she heads to London to find him. What she finds instead...actually, a who—Mr. Campbell Smith.
Mr. Campbell Smith is a dutiful brother by day, the ruthless owner of a shipping empire by day and night—and by the very, very late hours, the master of his own dark, insatiable pleasures. With his siblings now married off, Campbell is finally free. Free. Free. Free. A wicked bachelor for life, answerable to no one but his own demanding appetites.
Then Miss Seraphina Beaton shows up. Asking for help. No, demanding. The fiery minx doesn’t ask for anything. She takes. Her sheer audacity drives him mad. He doesn’t know whether to spank her or kiss her or more. And with every second they spend together, he finds himself craving that ‘more’, even harder.
With all the ways she’s turning him upside down, he’ll be happy when she’s gone. Won’t he? Except the closer that time comes, the less sure Campbell is. About his dream of staying a bachelor. About her being a burden.
About letting her go.
Heat Level: High Heat (Expect plenty of wicked pleasures)
***Can be read as a standalone!
The Books in the McQuoid Family Saga:
While You Were Sailing (A Prequel Short Novel to the Saga)
The Villain
The Beast
The Forsaken
The Rake--Coming December 2026
Next Installment-Coming February 2027
Genre: Historical Romance