Ruthless, wicked, and dark, the Marquess of Rutland rouses terror in the breasts of ladies and noblemen alike. All Edmund wants in life is power. After he was publically humiliated by his one love, Lady Margaret, he vowed vengeance, using Margaret’s niece as his pawn. Except he’s thwarted by another more enticing target: Miss Phoebe Barrett.
Miss Phoebe Barrett knows precisely the shame she’s been born to. Because her father is a shocking letch, she’s learned to form her own opinions on a person’s worth. After a chance meeting with the Marquess of Rutland, she is captivated by the mysterious man. He, too, is a victim of society’s scorn, but the more encounters she has with Edmund, the more she knows there is powerful depth and emotion to the jaded marquess.
The lady wreaks havoc on Edmund’s plans for revenge, and he finds he wants Phoebe at all costs. As she’s drawn into the darkness of his world, Phoebe risks being destroyed by Edmund’s ruthlessness. And Phoebe, who desires love at all costs, has to determine if she can ever truly trust the heart of a scoundrel.
Ruthless, wicked and ….. in love. Edmund is the classic mean spirit, rich, powerful men who can’t take a NO for an answer. After years of stewing over a lady who chose another man over him, he decides to take his revenge. And he is so mean that he resorts to using young, innocent women to get what he wants.Â
Captivating. “Scoundrels, rakes and rogues are not to be trusted.”Â
Five Stars is Not Enough! Edmund, the Marquess of Rutland, has no use for that awful emotion – love. After all, he learned at the hands of his parents that it doesn’t exist. And if they didn’t prove it to him then the fickle female he now suffers daily leg pain from proved it to him. Over the past twenty plus years he has taken his hatred to new levels. Effectively ruining lives of men who owe him money or who have, in his mind, slighted him in some way. Now his sight is set on that fickle female…