This Rake of Mine - Elizabeth Boyle

Written by Elizabeth Boyle
Read by Susan Duerden
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Bachelor Chronicles, Book 2
Publisher:Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: June 16, 2020
Duration: 09:59:28

When the rakehell Lord Jack Tremont kissed Miranda Mabberly, mistaking her for his mistress, neither realized his reckless act would cost Miranda her reputation, her fiance, and her future. But for Jack, it was a kiss that would haunt-an intoxicating memory of a woman lost to him forever.

Years later, hiding as “Jane Porter” far from London and teacher at Miss Emery’s Establishment for the Education of Genteel Ladies-Miranda has made a respectable life for herself, away from the ton and the dangerous men who inhabit it. When a penniless, much humbled, though still damnably attractive Jack arrives at the school to escort a rebellious young niece home, Miranda does her best to avoid the rogue only to end up tumbling into his arms-and reawakening a desire that is anything but proper.

She might want to deny her heart, but Miranda’s resolve is no match for a trio of schoolgirl matchmakers who knows true passion when they spy it. Now they won’t rest until their all-too-proper teacher and the reprobate lord discover the love that is their destiny.

…Starred review from September 15, 2005
”With just one kiss, “Mad Jack” Tremont, the ton’s most infamous rake, ruined Miranda Mabberly’s life forever. Being caught kissing Jack not only terminated Miranda’s engagement with the odious Lord Oxley, it also prompted Miranda’s title-mad parents to send their now socially disgraced daughter into exile with distant relatives. Now nine years later, Miranda has reinvented herself as “Jane Porter,” a decorum teacher for Miss Emery’s Establishment for the Education of Genteel Ladies. While escorting the Misses Felicity, Tally, and Pippin home from school, Miranda reluctantly gives into the girls’ wishes that they stop at Thistleton Park, where she discovers that the owner of the estate is none other than sinfully sexy Mad Jack.

Boyle deftly balances the darker plot elements of her story with some deliciously comic moments involving the matchmaking machinations of Miranda’s charges. And the exquisitely sensual chemistry she creates between her sharp-witted, sharp-tongued heroine and her dangerously sexy hero is simply sublime”…. Booklist, 2005, American Library Association.