After a wayward youth, David Reece, the youngest scion in a noble family, has been called one of the most scandalous rogues of the ton. What he wants to be called is trustworthy and a true gentleman. All is going swimmingly until highwaymen waylay his coach and steal that precious ring Street orphan Vivian Beecham has grown up a pickpocket, and a very pretty one indeed. Now she and her brother have reluctantly graduated to highway robbery.
And handsome David Reece has become their victim—until he tracks her down and makes her his prisoner. Locked in a spare bedroom, Vivian vows to hate her captor. But David and Vivian are playing a dangerous game in which forbidden love is a wild card…. Kindle Book PDF ebook. Fiction Romance Historical Fiction.
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Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to romance, historical romance lovers. Your Rating:. Marcus's face relaxed again, and he gave a small smile. That look gave David an odd feeling. Marcus had never been one to care what others thought. And David couldn't recall the last time he'd seen Marcus smile so often. Again his brother and sister-in-law shared a glance.
David wished they would stop that. It felt as though they were talking about him without his having any idea what was said. You've been locked in here an age. Tea was too weak. In fact, whiskey sounded too weak. David was tempted to drive straight to the nearest pub and stay there for a month.
David paused, thinking of the excellent chef at Ainsley Park, but shook his head. The longer he stayed, the greater the odds that he would lose his nerve and back out. He would not back out. He would do this. It will make things easier. With this ring, he might as well be the duke of Exeter, he thought, vaguely alarmed at the thought.
David had never envied his brother the title. It had suited him much better to be the younger son, never expected to do much beyond cut a dashing figure. He was a rogue by nature, he always told himself, and while it was very convenient to have Marcus step in and right his ship from time to time, David was quite content to sail where the wind took him. But now he wore a copy of the Exeter signet on his hand, and the responsibility for the Exeter affairs rested heavily on his shoulders.
He summoned another careless smile, saying a quick prayer that his sister-in-law would return from her wedding trip expecting the first of three or four sons, to obliterate any possibility of inheriting the title himself. Marcus shook his hand, and Hannah kissed his cheek. Still grinning determinedly, David lifted the leather case, and made his escape before anyone noticed he was sweating, and before he opened his mouth and wormed his way out of this.
Responsible, sober, and dependable, he repeated to himself. Hannah watched her tall brother-in-law stride from the room, his shoulders back, his spine ramrod-straight. He looked like a man marching to his doom. He smiled, his expression softening dramatically. I will have made him a useless man if I do not trust him and give him a chance to redeem himself. He will never become competent if I do everything for him. I was quite awake during that lecture, I assure you.
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