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THE KNAVE OF HEARTS
Rhymes With Love #5
Elizabeth Boyle
Releasing on January 26, 2016
Avon
In the fifth novel of the captivating Rhymes with Love series from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle, a young woman’s hopes of a match encounter a wickedly handsome complication…
Lavinia Tempest has been eagerly anticipating a spectacular Season. But one disastrous pile-up on the Almack’s dance floor derails all her plans. Add to that, the very stunning revelations about her
mother’s scandalous past have become the ton’s latest on dits. Lavinia’s future has gone from shining bright to blackest night in one misstep.
mother’s scandalous past have become the ton’s latest on dits. Lavinia’s future has gone from shining bright to blackest night in one misstep.
Alaster “Tuck” Rowland admits he’s partly to blame for Lavinia’s disastrous debut. But it’s not guilt that compels him to restore her reputation. Rather, he’s placed a wager that he can make Lavinia into of the most sought-after ladies in London. Who better than an unrepentant rake to set Society astir?
Tuck’s motives are hardly noble. But in teaching the lovely Lavinia how to win any man she wants, he suddenly finds himself tangled in the last place he ever imagined: in love.
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“Oh, come now, no one is going to
leave without you. Besides, do an old woman a favor and tell her the
story.” The woman winked with a cheeky glee. “I saw that kiss at
the altar. I’d wager my broom there’s a bit of scandal and
romance to all of this.” Then she looked at the door as well. “And
more to come if I’m not mistaken.”
Lavinia smiled, for Tildie had the
right of it. Everything about this wedding and the days leading up to
it were filled with scandal … and romance.
Truly, what would a quick recap for
a lonely old woman cost her?
So she gathered her thoughts and
tried to decide where best to begin.
“I suppose you could say it
started,” Lavinia told her rapt audience, “when Louisa and I came
to London for our Season. Our godmother, Lady Charleton, had promised
to sponsor us, or so we thought.” She paused for a moment. For what
had really happened was that they’d arrived in London only to
discover that the baroness had passed away over a year earlier, and
it was the baron’s secretary who had made all the
arrangements—including finding them a suitable chaperone, Lady
Aveley.
But all those points hardly
mattered. And as their dear friend, Lady Essex, always said when a
story got long-winded, “Get to the good part.”
So Lavinia did. “Our fortunes
truly changed the night we went to Almack’s and our party was
joined by Mr. Rowland—”
At the mention of Lord Charleton’s
nephew and heir, the charwoman brightened. “Oh, he’s a handsome
one—the one who stood up with His Lordship—isn’t he?” Tildie
sighed a little, her smile turning dreamy like a newly arrived
debutante’s. “Knavish looking fellow if ever there was one,”
the charwoman happily mused. Then, as if thinking better of her
choice of words, she added quickly, “Well, that’s what me mum
would have said.”
Though Tildie appeared to share that
sentiment.
“And right she would be,”
Lavinia advised the charwoman in no uncertain terms. For if ever
there was a knave, it was Mr. Alaster Rowland. “None of this would
have happened if Mr. Rowland hadn’t let go of me in the middle of
Almack’s. None of this.” She looked down at the wedding bouquet
in her hands before picking up her story again.
For Tildie’s sake, and her own.
For it had all happened so fast, she
hardly believed it herself.
ELIZABETH BOYLE has always loved romance and now lives it each and every day by writing adventurous and passionate stories that readers from all around the world have described as “page-turners.” Since her first book was published, she’s seen her romances become New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and win the RWA RITA Award and the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice awards. She resides in Seattle with her family, her garden and always growing collection of yarn. Readers can visit her on the Web at www.elizabethboyle.com.
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