Rules of the Rogue Series by Emily Windsor

Mrs Lily Mereworth’s List of Bold New Life Resolutions. To be completed by Christmas Eve, 1814. • Burn Miss Pikesworth’s Guide to Etiquette – Achieved. • Visit a gaming hell and win oneself lots of money – Achieved. • Imbibe new-fangled absinthe – Preparations underway. • Seduce a rogue – ? Attending a Christmastide gathering is surely the best way for the most proper widow Mrs Lily Mereworth to complete her list and banish her past... moreMrs Lily Mereworth’s List of Bold New Life Resolutions. To be completed by Christmas Eve, 1814. • Burn Miss Pikesworth’s Guide to Etiquette – Achieved. • Visit a gaming hell and win oneself lots of money – Achieved. • Imbibe new-fangled absinthe – Preparations underway. • Seduce a rogue – ? Attending a Christmastide gathering is surely the best way for the most proper widow Mrs Lily Mereworth to complete her list and banish her past. After all, there will be more than a few suitable gentlemen present. If only a shrewd, hazel-eyed viscount didn’t keep disrupting her plans… Newly ennobled Viscount Asher Rainham has no schedule for seduction, Christmas or dallying with women. He has merely turned up for the good company, intelligent card playing and excellent brandy. But as snow swathes the land, a certain Mrs Mereworth confounds his expectations and assaults his methodical senses. Asher, spymaster, a man who never takes risks, finds himself in need of some Rules of the Rogue… Ghost stories on a windy night, swordplay down the Great Portrait Gallery, snapdragon in the dark – a lady and a gentleman with no thought to love… Merry Christmas. less

“Strait-laced. Ruthless. Arrogant.” Alexander Westhide, the Duke of Rakecombe has no quarrel with such faint praise as he has forever shunned marriage, women and anything remotely resembling love. Indeed, the damning words merely serve to enhance his haughty façade. But beneath the controlled demeanour lies a duke beset by tragedy, a man turbulent and restless. “Forthright. Impudent… Capricious saucebox... more“Strait-laced. Ruthless. Arrogant.” Alexander Westhide, the Duke of Rakecombe has no quarrel with such faint praise as he has forever shunned marriage, women and anything remotely resembling love. Indeed, the damning words merely serve to enhance his haughty façade. But beneath the controlled demeanour lies a duke beset by tragedy, a man turbulent and restless. “Forthright. Impudent… Capricious saucebox.” Miss Aideen Quinlan can’t quite express why she feels the need to taunt, tease and generally annoy the Duke of Rakecombe. Maybe it was for the heart-racing spar of words that always ensued, or maybe it was to see the duke’s broad fist clench on his ebony cane, green eyes glittering. Or maybe it was because she was unable to erase the memory of his vehement kiss… An unlikely couple. Torn between his world of espionage and this unquenchable passion, the duke still refuses to lower his fierce defences. If Aideen is to capture her resistant duke’s troubled heart, it is she who must follow the Rules of the Rogue. Resistance is futile… A sensual Regency Romance with warmth and wit, this story also includes unpalatable chefs, a darling of the Season with a secondary love story, deadly walking canes and sheep… less