Goodreads asked Lara Temple:

What are you currently working on?

Lara Temple I’m working on a series called The Hope House Rakes – about three men who because of wartime experiences and losses have established a special haven for men damaged by war and its aftermath. They first show up in another of my Works-In-Progress about an English officer and a woman forced to spy during the Napoleonic Wars. All three are rakes in their own way, very cynical about life but are bound together by strong bonds of loyalty and friendship. The first a kind of Cinderella story about Nell, a gawky young woman who escapes her bullying household only to find herself engaged to the rakish Lord Hunter who is only interested in the land she has inherited. But Nell has no intention of ever again being at someone else’s mercy, no matter how charming. She has been in love all her life with the beautiful Charles and is determined to make as much use of the amusing and infuriating Lord Hunter as he plans to make of her. But as she schemes to capture the heart of her perfect prince she finds that her highly flawed rake is her perfect match.

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