The Virgin and the Rogue
The Rogue Files
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4.4 • 33 Ratings
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Publisher Description
USA Today Bestseller
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that the young lady everyone assumes is mousy has uncharted depths... particularly when there's a scientific sister, an aphrodisiac, and the stepbrother of a duke around. Creative, unique, and racy --this story is not unlike the very elixir around which it is based."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light
Continuing her bestselling Rogue Files series, Sophie Jordan brews up a scintillating romance about a timid wallflower who discovers a love potion and ends up falling for a dashing rogue.
A love potion…
Charlotte Langley has always been the prudent middle sister, so her family is not surprised when she makes the safe choice and agrees to wed her childhood sweetheart. But when she finds herself under the weather and drinks a “healing” tonic, the potion provokes the most maddening desire…for someone other than her betrothed.
With the power…
Kingston’s rakehell ways are going to destroy him and he’s vowed to change. His stepbrother’s remote estate is just the place for a reformed rogue to hide. The last thing he wants is to be surrounded by society, but when he gets stuck alone with a wallflower who is already betrothed... and she astonishes him with a fiery kiss, he forgets all about hiding.
To alter two destinies.
Although Charlotte appears meek, Kingston soon discovers there’s a vixen inside, yearning to break free. Unable to forget their illicit moment of passion, Kingston vows to relive the encounter, but Charlotte has sworn it will never happen again—no matter how earth-shattering it was. But will a devilish rogue tempt her to risk everything for a chance at true love?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A powerful aphrodisiac drives the smoldering sixth Regency in Jordan's Rogue Files series (after The Duke's Stolen Bride). Charlotte Langley's romance with her childhood friend William Pembroke had a hiccup when she and her sisters, Marian and Nora, briefly lost everything after the death of their father, but now that Marian is married to the wealthy Duke of Warrington, Charlotte and William's engagement is back on. Their relationship is comfortable, chaste, and boring. Enter Kingston, illegitimate stepbrother to the duke and a known rogue. His visit to his stepbrother's estate happens to coincide with Nora, an herbalist, accidentally mixing Charlotte a cordial that makes her overcome with lust. Their steamy first encounter escalates into a torrid affair as the effects of the love potion linger. What little plot breaks up the sex scenes follows a predictable formula, but Charlotte and Kingston's chemistry and the welcome humor Jordan weaves throughout will keep readers turning the pages. This erotically charged historical romance packs a passionate punch.
Customer Reviews
Delightfully Bonkers
I received an ARC of this book to read through Edelweiss+ in exchange for a fair review. The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan is the sixth book her The Rogue Files Series. I would suggest at a minimum reading book five The Duke’s Stolen Bride before reading this one because it gives background information about the heroine in this book that I think is essential in understanding her feelings and some of her actions. The first thing you need to know about this book is that it’s slightly bonkers in the most wonderful way, and if you are looking for an escape read, this one would be an excellent choice. Charlotte Langley just wants to be safe and secure she doesn’t want passion, her life has been through several upheavals, and she just wants a quiet existence with no ups and no downs, and plans to marry her very staid childhood sweetheart. Seeking an escape from the terrible cramps she gets each month she downs a remedy prepared for her by her sister and experiences some extreme side effects. Charlotte comes to believe that this version of the potion is an aphrodisiac after she more or less attacks her brother-in-law’s visiting step-brother Samuel Kingston. Strongly affected by his mother’s illness, Kingston is taking a break from his usual debauched lifestyle and not quite sure what it is he is looking for, having a lovely virgin crawling all over him is certainly not what he expected. Watching these two seemingly opposites find their way to each other is delightful, and I enjoyed this book very much, devouring it in one day and then going back to reread it one more time. Medium Steam. Publishing Date April 28, 2020. #TheVirginAndTheRogue #SophieJordan #EdelweissPlus #HistoricalRomance #LovePotionsAndAphrodisiacs #bookstagram #HarperCollinsCanada #bookstagram #AvonRomance #EscapeReading