St. Martin's Paperbacks
Featuring: Hart Highgate; Meg Timmons
304 pages ISBN: 125012171X EAN: 9781250121714 Kindle: B06Y5SDVDB Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
There is something swoon-inducing about your best friend's older brother, isn't there? The familiarity makes him attractively safe while the proximity lends an irresistible air of the forbidden. This dynamic is drawn out to satisfying conclusion in Valerie Bowman's THE RIGHT KIND OF ROGUE.
Meg Timmons, a woman after my own heart, has always loved her best friend's older brother. Hart is beautiful, masculine, beguiling -- and a maddeningly improper match. Not only is Hart well above her in social standing and the son of her father's worst enemy, a feud which luckily left the children relatively unscathed, he is also a rake of the highest circle.
Hart's tastes go toward fast horses and available actresses -- certainly not toward marriage, with its "fickle wives" and "economic arrangements." Shudder. Much too much there to remind him of his parents' own unhappy arrangement. And yet, he is not getting any younger. He'll be 30 soon, in fact, and needs to begin paying serious mind to his duties as future Earl -- like the small matters of finding a Countess and producing the next Earl post haste.
The set-up will be familiar to you -- bad boy reluctantly grows to admire plucky, and adorably plain, girl. He realizes he's been missing out on true love this whole time and settles down to be a family man. But Bowman brings a nice sensitivity and eye for detail to her telling. Adding a scandalous backstory and family feud keeps the primary action compelling without ever slipping into unbelievable territory.
Highly recommended reading THE RIGHT KIND OF ROGUE for those looking for a well- done escape into Regency London.
Can two star-crossed lovers come together—until death
do they part?
Viscount Hart Highgate has decided to put his rakish ways
behind him and finally get married. He may adore a good
brandy or a high-speed carriage race, but he takes his
duties as heir to the earldom seriously. Now all he has to
do is find the right kind of woman to be his bride—ideally,
one who’s also well-connected and well-funded. . .
Meg Timmons has loved Hart, the brother of her best friend,
ever since she was an awkward, blushing schoolgirl. If only
she had a large dowry—or anything to her name at all.
Instead, she’s from a family that’s been locked in a bitter
feud with Hart’s for years. And now she’s approaching her
third London season, Meg’s chances with him are slim to
none. Unless a surprise encounter on a deep, dark night
could be enough to spark a rebellious romance. . .for all time?
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