Lady Aubree Berford was a beautiful young innocent, but also a creature of spirit and pride, befitting the daughter of a duke. Certainly she would never become the latest conquest of the infamous Earl of Heathmont, the most notorious rake in the realm.
But now she was not Heathmont's conquest but instead was his bride in what was supposed to be a marriage-in-name-only...struggling to stop him from violating his pledge not to touch her and struggling even harder to keep herself from wanting him to...as innocence and experience joined to teach each other how helpless both were in the passionate power of a love that would not be denied.
With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today's bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA Patricia Rice writes emotionally-charged contemporary and historical romances which have won numerous awards, including the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice and Career Achievement Awards.
Her books have also been honored as Romance Writers of America RITA® finalists in the historical, regency and contemporary categories.
A firm believer in happily-ever-after for good reason, Patricia Rice is married to her high school sweetheart and has two children. A native of Kentucky and New York, a past resident of North Carolina and Missouri, she currently resides in Southern California, and now does accounting only for herself.
Fire the Editor: I gave this book a three because of all the errors in it. There were grammatical errors, missing words, and misspelled words. The errors were pretty bad in all of the Dark Lords and Dangerous Ladies series, but this one was the worst out of the five books. This was my favorite of the five books. Ms. Rice has a beautiful romance that I would have rated a four or five without the errors.
Young Lady Aubree Berford complies with her father's dying wish and chooses a husband. But her choice is unacceptable, and when she engages the disreputable third Earl of Heathmont to help her arrange an elopement, little does she count on her growing passion for this unlikely knight-errant.
The names of three of the main characters all start with "A." It a typical virgin-and-the-ruined-duke story, but not well done. Pass on this.
I gave this 5 stars more for sentiment. It was one of the first romances that I ever read. The first being The Maide of Lorne by Terri Brisbin. I lived on an island in WA state at the time with limited book sources (and book buying funds) and so had to reread books quite a bit. Anyway, I remember this book as being one of the ones that got me hooked on romances.