Let Sleeping Rogues Lie
From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries comes the fourth book in her dazzling and sensual School for Heiresses series -- the story of a charmingly handsome rake who challenges everything a young teacher thinks she knows about passion and desire. "Don't let yourself be fooled,...
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From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries comes the fourth book in her dazzling and sensual School for Heiresses series -- the story of a charmingly handsome rake who challenges everything a young teacher thinks she knows about passion and desire. "Don't let yourself be fooled, Madeline: once a rake, always a rake." -- Mrs. Charlotte Harris, headmistress When Madeline Prescott took a teaching position at Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies, it was to help restore her father's reputation. Instead, she's in danger of ruining her own. The devilishly handsome Anthony Dalton, Viscount Norcourt, has agreed to provide "rake lessons" to Mrs. Harris's pupils so they can learn how to avoid unscrupulous gentlemen, and Madeline is to oversee his classes. She has always believed that attraction is a scientific matter, easily classified and controlled -- until she's swept into the passionate desire that fiercely burns between her and Anthony. Nothing could be more illogical than risking everything for a dalliance with a rake -- even one who's trying to behave himself. Yet nothing could be more tempting....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9781416551515 (1416551514)
Publish date: February 19th 2008
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: School for Heiresses (#4)
Loved it! Anthony and Madeline are easily one of my most favorite couples ever. They are quite obviously great for each other, well once they got over their trust/control issues. They had a wonderful supporting cast, which always makes a book so much more enjoyable to me. I daresay I shall have to a...
A fairly decent historical romance. I rather liked how the author stayed within the moral constraints of the time, and did not make the mistake of slipping into anachronistic behaviour for her characters. Too, the tone of learning how to trust another person in spite of being sexually drawn to them ...