A woman who doesn’t deserve her world …
After years of suffering from a mistake she’d committed as a naive debutante, Laura Blackburn’s life is about to change for the better. She’s a step away from a betrothal to a duke’s son, saving her and her family’s reputation. But as the clock at their engagement party strikes twelve, the groom-to-be is found with a dead body, and Laura is left without a much-needed betrothal. There’s only one solution: to clear him of guilt, even if she’ll have to do it herself.
And a man not welcome in it …
Devin Valentine might be a hard-working and ethical doctor, but everyone knows who he really is: a duke’s bastard. Hovering on the fringes of polite society, Devin is none too impressed when one of his medical cases brings to him a woman desiring justice for her nearly betrothed—Devin’s half-brother, and the man who took his dream life from him.
The last thing Devin wants is to offer help to a family who’d discarded him—but the unusually frank and bizarrely morbid Laura draws his fancy. And against her better judgment, Devin brings out a scorching attraction in Laura—the kind she’d felt years ago, the kind that had once nearly ruined her life. It is a good thing their relationship is impossible—because Devin knows love doesn’t exist, and Laura knows how catastrophic it can be. But the two most logical people in London might be about to learn that where desire treads, reason holds no power …
Lord Scoundrel is the second, standalone installment in Scandalous Valentines, a series of light and witty Regency Romances. Kisses will fall—but the rest is closed door!
Genre: Historical Romance
After years of suffering from a mistake she’d committed as a naive debutante, Laura Blackburn’s life is about to change for the better. She’s a step away from a betrothal to a duke’s son, saving her and her family’s reputation. But as the clock at their engagement party strikes twelve, the groom-to-be is found with a dead body, and Laura is left without a much-needed betrothal. There’s only one solution: to clear him of guilt, even if she’ll have to do it herself.
And a man not welcome in it …
Devin Valentine might be a hard-working and ethical doctor, but everyone knows who he really is: a duke’s bastard. Hovering on the fringes of polite society, Devin is none too impressed when one of his medical cases brings to him a woman desiring justice for her nearly betrothed—Devin’s half-brother, and the man who took his dream life from him.
The last thing Devin wants is to offer help to a family who’d discarded him—but the unusually frank and bizarrely morbid Laura draws his fancy. And against her better judgment, Devin brings out a scorching attraction in Laura—the kind she’d felt years ago, the kind that had once nearly ruined her life. It is a good thing their relationship is impossible—because Devin knows love doesn’t exist, and Laura knows how catastrophic it can be. But the two most logical people in London might be about to learn that where desire treads, reason holds no power …
Lord Scoundrel is the second, standalone installment in Scandalous Valentines, a series of light and witty Regency Romances. Kisses will fall—but the rest is closed door!
Genre: Historical Romance