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When Lady Emily is trapped while fern hunting in an old mine shaft overnight with irresistibly sexy Lord Markshall, she indulges in the sin of his delicious, melting kiss. After all, it's just one night... Until the newspaper gossip forces him to propose. Lady Emily can't marry him, but a fake engagement can save her ruined reputation and prevent her scandalous secret from being revealed. The censure of prim Lady Emily is the ideal way for Lord Markshall to reinforce his image as a scoundrel and a rake. He didn't mean to compromise her, or to be overcome with desire for a clever woman hiding her real self. But to protect her, he'll have to choose: his covert mission or his heart.
Genre: historical romance
Publication date: June 2019
Mature content: yes
Review: I read this book for free via Apple Books and to be honest I was pleasantly surprised. The plot isn’t all that original, because the rake vs. prim and proper lady where both of them are hiding secrets setting has been the subject of many of these historical romances before - and then, as usual, you discover he isn’t all that much of a rake and she’s not really that proper after all…
But still, in Falling for a Rake the combination works pretty well, the story is told in a fairly interesting way and, apart from maybe sex scenes that are slightly too graphical for the rest of the of the context, it’s
a fairly good book and perfectly able to keep your attention until the end.
Falling for a Rake is book one in the Fallen series by Even Pendle, and I am now curious about the next two books in the series, so I hope I can find the time to read (and review) them soon.
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