Regency Rebels: Scandalous Lord, Rebellious Miss / An Improper Aristocrat

Regency Rebels: Scandalous Lord, Rebellious Miss / An Improper Aristocrat
Deb Marlowe

Hearts and reputations at stake…Reformed rake Charles Alden, Viscount Dayle, is intent on redeeming his misspent youth. But then he meets Sophie Westby, the last woman who should attract his interest. Yet she comforts his battered spirit and tempts him with her exotic beauty. But can this lord risk another scandal? Can an improper aristocrat become a gentleman?The scandalous Earl of Treyford has no time for the pretty niceties of the ton. He has returned to England to aid an “ageing” spinster facing an undefined danger. But Miss Latimer’s dark and sultry beauty, her fascinating mix of knowledge and innocence, arouse far more than his protective instincts. Two classic and delightful Regency tales!

About the Author

DEB MARLOWE grew up in Pennsylvania with her nose in a book. Luckily, she’s read enough romances to recognise the true modern hero she met at a college Halloween party—even though he wore a tuxedo T-shirt instead of breeches and tall boots. They married, settled in North Carolina, and produced two handsome, intelligent and genuinely amusing boys.

Though she spends much of her time now with her nose in her laptop, for the sake of her family she does occasionally abandon her inner world for the domestic adventure of laundry, dinner and car-pool. Despite her sacrifice, not one of the men in her family is yet willing to don breeches or tall boots. She’s working on it. Deb would love to hear from readers! You can contact her at debmarlowe@debmarlowe.com

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Rebels

Scandalous Lord, Rebellious Miss

An Improper Aristocrat

Deb Marlowe

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Scandalous Lord, Rebellious Miss

Deb Marlowe

To my husband—supporter of dreams and builder of sheds extraordinaire

And to Susan—for cracking her whip and wielding her red whip with flair

Chapter One

Charles Alden, Viscount Dayle, sank into his favourite over-stuffed chair in the morning room at White’s. It was early; the porters had not yet let down the awnings and bright light flooded through the floor-to-ceiling window. At his elbow sat a pot of coffee, a plate of muffins, and a pile of papers. He snapped open The Times, sank his teeth into his first, hot, buttery bite and let out a heartfelt sigh.

He revelled in the peace of the morning all the way through the first paper. Unfortunately, peace was a commodity hard to come by anywhere in England in the spring of 1817, even for a viscount. Charles first noticed something amiss as he set aside The Times and reached for the Edinburgh Review.

A space had cleared all about him. The morning room, usually full of gentlemen either beginning one day or ending another, was empty but for a few souls gathered in whispering knots along the walls. One man caught his gaze, blasted him with a look of utter scorn, and stalked out, calling for his hat. A wrench of foreboding seizing his gut, Charles looked up into the sympathetic eye of one of the porters, come to refresh his coffee.

‘Well, Bartlett,’ he said quietly, ‘I can see you are not half so ignorant as I. Tell me.’

Bartlett cleared his throat. ‘I have taken the liberty of adding a copy of today’s Oracle to the stack of your usual papers, my lord. Perhaps you would care to peruse the editorial section?’

‘The Oracle?’ It was little more than a scandal sheet. ‘Thank you, Bartlett.’

Charles picked up the paper with trepidation and turned a few pages until he found the item he sought, directly under a scathing response to Lord Sidmouth’s call against ‘seditious publications’.

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