Craving the Rake's Touch
London, 1836Lady Sarah Dryden once dreamed of marrying for love. But with the threat of scandal looming over her whole family, she must secure a wealthy husband—and quickly! If only her heart didn’t already belong to the irresistibly tempting, and entirely unsuitable, Benedict DeBreed…Despite his well-deserved reputation as one of London’s most notorious rakes, Benedict wants nothing more than to claim Sarah as his bride. And before he loses her to another in a loveless marriage, he’ll use his legendary powers of seduction to show her exactly what she could expect with him as a husband!
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London, 1836
Lady Sarah Dryden once dreamed of marrying for love. But with the threat of scandal looming over her whole family, she must secure a wealthy husbandâand quickly! If only her heart didnât already belong to the irresistibly tempting, and entirely unsuitable, Benedict DeBreed...
Despite his well-deserved reputation as one of Londonâs most notorious rakes, Benedict wants nothing more than to claim Sarah as his bride. And before he loses her to another in a loveless marriage, heâll use his legendary powers of seduction to show her exactly what she could expect with him as a husband!
If you enjoy this story, look for the two full-length
novels by Bronywn Scott in her latest series:
Rakes of the Caribbean
Sun, sand and sizzling seduction
Notorious rogues Ren Dryden and Kitt Sherard used to cut a swath through the ton, but they were too wild to be satisfied with London seasons and prim debutantes.
Now theyâve ventured to the sultry Caribbean to seek their fortunes...and women strong enough to tame them!
Ren meets his match in spirited Emma Ward.
Relish their seductive battle of wits in
PLAYING THE RAKEâS GAME
Available January 2015
Kitt has never met a woman as unconventional as Bryn Rutherford. Enjoy their scorching chemistry in
BREAKING THE RAKEâS RULES
Available February 2015
Benedict and Sarahâs short story takes place concurrently with Renâs full-length novel. If youâve read Renâs tale, Playing the Rakeâs Game, book 1 in my Rakes of the Caribbean series, you know heâs received word via letter that Sarah is marrying one of his best friendsâBenedict DeBreed. If not, weâre just catching you up here. Thereâs a great scene where Kitt Sherard and Ren discuss the impending nuptials. Now you can find out how their marriage came to beâand you can find out who was right, Ren or Kitt. Ren feared Sarah was sacrificing herself in marriage but Kitt was a little more optimistic. Who will you side with after you read the tale? This was a fun, high-speed story to write. I hope you enjoy it with the same enthusiasm!
Take time to enjoy all three stories in the Rakes of the Caribbean trilogy. Be on the watch for Kitt Sherardâs own story that ends the series!
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For Leslie Witwer, who is amazingly supportive! Sheâs got my back even when I donât.
BRONWYN SCOTT is a communications instructor at Pierce College in the United States, and is the proud mother of three wonderful children (one boy and two girls). When sheâs not teaching or writing she enjoys playing the piano, travelingâespecially to Florence, Italyâand studying history and foreign languages.
Readers can stay in touch on Bronwynâs website, www.bronwynnscott.com, or at her blog, www.bronwynswriting.blogspot.comâshe loves to hear from readers.
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Lady Sarah Dryden sat ramrod-straight in the elegant Louis XV drawing room of the familyâs country seat, dressed in the highest of fashion London had to offer and surrounded by the scions of some of Englandâs best families, many of whom had traveled from London to bask exclusively in her charms as the selected few. She laughed, she smiled, she complimented, until there wasnât a single man among them who didnât feel the full force of her blue-eyed charm.
She had never felt more like a fraud. Perhaps the gentlemen assembled did, too. She knew very well they werenât here to simply bask. There was a job to be done over the course of this short diversion of a house party before rejoining the Season already underway in London. These men had invested in the journey from London, in the hopes of trying their luck at winning her hand, or if that failed, at winning the hand of one of the other lovely young debutantes present, just as those pretty girls were trying their luck at winning that exact proposition from one of the highly eligible men present. Everyone was engaged in an enormous play, only Sarah Dryden wasnât playing fair.
She was not what they thought. She wasnât rich and she was not free to choose. In fact, she did not want to choose any of them. They were not funny, although she laughed. Many of them were not attractive, although she told them they were.
If it had been up to her, she would have cleared the room a half hour ago, told them all to save their fathersâ money and invest in a woman who would or could choose them, a woman who might love them for themselves and not their fortunes. But that woman would not be her. She wasnât free to choose them even if their attributes recommended them to her. She could only choose a wealthy man. That wasnât even the biggest secret.
