The Missed Match (The Rakehell Regency Romance Series)

The Missed Match (The Rakehell Regency Romance Series)





The Missed Match
Book 2, The Rakehell Regency Romance Series
The wrong man! The right woman....

Thomas Eltham, the Duke of Ellesmere, is about to give up any hope of winning the woman of his dreams, beautiful heiress Charlotte Castlemaine, when he overhears the most shocking plot against her by Thomas's worst enemy, Herbert Paxton. Her erstwhile friends hope to convince her to elope with Herbert in order to get her fortune and divide it up amongst themselves once she is dead.

Death would be a mercy for Charlotte. Thomas knows only too well what will happen to her at Herbert's hands. Another young woman Thomas once cared for was ruined and left mad by the vile seducer-Thomas is determined that the unsuspecting Charlotte will not share the same fate. Haunted by his past, the Duke sets out to save Charlotte by preventing the elopement--even if it means marrying her himself!

Charlotte is just about to elope with Herbert, the man of her dreams when fate takes a hand in the form of the handsome Duke. Only a few sensual minutes in Thomas' carriage nearly proves her undoing. No other man's kisses have ever left her so filled with longing, not even her intended's.

When her elopement is discovered by her family, she is trapped between telling the truth, and risking losing everything, or playing along with the Duke's shocking explanation of why they are together: that they are in love and were heading to Gretna Green to marry!

Charlotte’s passionate response to the Duke every touch and kiss is bad enough. The fact that Thomas persists in making wedding plans even though he knows she is in love with another seems a disaster of the worse magnitude.

Yet the passion they share cannot be denied. As they grow ever closer, the couple finds themselves caught up in an inferno of desire, jealousy, suspicion and revenge which can only have one outcome: Thomas, a former soldier in the wars again Napoleon, must fight for the woman he loves and all he holds dear in a winner-take-all battle that has fateful consquences not only for Thomas and Charlotte's future, but the whole of England itself.

Will Charlotte prove Thomas’s ally, or foe? Can she ever come to love this stranger with kisses like fire? Or will she flee from the desire that blazes within her at his merest touch, right into the hands of their waiting enemies...

AN EXCERPT FROM THE MISSED MATCH:
She trembled in the Duke's arms, wracking her brain for the little she knew of him. She had never sensed even the slightest hint of impropriety. She had seen him everywhere she had visited, always in the background, hardly speaking to her, yet always seeming as if he were on the watch for something. The perfect wife, no doubt.
On the whole she could not help envy the lucky woman just a little. But all thoughts turned to Herbert once more as they neared the carriage which would take her on her journey to love and freedom.
“Really, there’s no need to carry me.The road is paved here. I can walk.”
“Nonsense, we’re nearly at the carriage.A little further will not inconvenience me, and you certainly would not want to run away, as it were, with a turned ankle.”
She wondered if he was not holding her a bit more tightly than the occasion warranted. Her bosom was pressed against his broad chest most intimately. One simple movement of his head would bring his finely chiseled, sensuous lips down upon hers.
She wondered if what happened next was her fault for staring at him so. If the wish gave birth to the deed. For as he strode to the waiting vehicle and swung her up into the open carriage door, his mouth swooped down upon hers…

Setting: Regency England, 1813
Word Count=93,000, 200 8.5 x 11 pages
Rating: Sensual, several love scenes
Also by the author
The Mad Mistress, Book 1 of The Rakehell Regency Romance Series
The Miss Matched (Book 3)
The Matchless Miss
The Scarred Heart
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