A Lady's Rules for Ruin
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
She’s found the perfect plan to avoid marriage…
Miss Frances Cherrington has long been criticized as independent and prickly. And she’s fine with it. Truth be told, she’d prefer to be a spinster—damn her family’s desires. But it’s a conversation with the devilishly handsome yet highly infuriating Earl of Winthrop that inspires the perfect escape from her nuptial troubles. Frances could ensure that no one will marry her—by happily ruining her own reputation…
The Earl of Winthrop knows more about ruin than anyone suspects. He’s just uncovered a secret that would tear his name—and everything he’s worked for—to the ground. Certainly, marriage is out of the question…to say nothing of his growing attraction to the forthright and delectable Miss Cherrington.
Though all London is abuzz with Frances’s “disgrace,” she’s determined to use her freedom however she sees fit. Even if it means spending more time with a man who sets her body on fire. But when Frances’s misdeeds catch up to her, the ruinous disaster she finds herself in blazes out of control, taking all of her options with it.
Each book in The Lions and Lilies series is STANDALONE:
* The Duke's Rules Of Engagement
* A Lady's Rules for Ruin
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A woman adopts an unexpected strategy for remaining single in Haymore's sparkling second Lions and Lilies Regency series installment (after The Duke's Rules of Engagement). Frances Cherrington is sick and tired of her family's persistent attempts to find her a husband. She decides to use the latest candidate, Herbert Salt, to her advantage, allowing society to catch them in a kiss just before Herbert is set to leave the country. Having thus ruined her own reputation, she's now free to pursue her interests, including volunteering at an orphanage. Then she meets the very proper Evan Locke, Earl of Winthrop, who comes to the orphanage seeking his young half brothers, whom his late father had never owned up to and with whom Frances already has a great rapport. Though Frances remains determined to stay single, she can't deny her feelings for Evan, who has his own secret reasons for avoiding marriage. They embark on a steamy affair—until Herbert arrives back in London determined to restore Frances's reputation by marrying her. Readers will adore Frances's candor and Evan's efforts to take his brothers under his wing. These admirable and defiant characters keep the pages turning.
