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It is 1803, and along the coast of Suffolk the threat of French invasion is at its highest. Smugglers, pirates, treasure-seekers and spies are all drawn to the quiet Midwinter villages, where the comfortable surface of village life conceals treason and danger as well as romance and excitement…

The Notorious Lord

 

The Characters:

Justin, Duke of Kestrel, owns Kestrel Court. His arrival in Suffolk sets the county all a-flutter. The most eligible aristocrat in the Ton, Justin is much sought after in Midwinter society. But can any lady catch him when he still carries a torch for his old love...

Lady Sally Saltire married Justin Kestrel's best friend in preference to him! Now a widow, Lady Sally is back in Midwinter and hosts the Midwinter Ladies Reading Society, a group of the most beautiful bluestockings in the neighbourhood. They are a supreme temptation to Justin and to his brothers...

Lord Richard Kestrel is the most notorious rake in the Ton and his younger brother Lord Lucas Kestrel scarcely less of a danger to the reputation of a lady. Together with their friend Cory, Lord Newlyn, the gentlemen pose a formidable threat to the virtue of the Midwinter ladies...

But can the bluestockings outwit the rakes?

Miss Rachel Odell has no time for scoundrels. She has grown up with Cory Newlyn and thinks that she knows everything there is to know about him, and that she will never see him as anything other than a friend. The Cory comes to work on her father's archaeological dig and against her will, Rachel begins to see him in a new light...

The Honourable Mrs Deborah Stratton has already rejected Lord Richard Kestrel's advances once, even though she is hopelessly attracted to him. Can she keep Richard at arm's length and sort out the unhappy marriage of her sister Olivia, Lady Marney, at the same time?

And what of the mysterious glass engraver, Miss Rebecca Raleigh? Is she all that she seems - and can she keep her most intimate secrets safe from Lord Lucas Kestrel?

When the rakes set their minds to seduction can the bluestocking resist? And will the gentlemen find that when they gamble on love they lose their hearts?

 

One Night of Scandal

 

 

 

 

The Rake's Mistress

 

 

 

 

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