The Rake and the Reformer
Beautiful Alys Weston had found refuge from heartbreak by masquerading as a man and becoming the manager of an isolated country estate. But the estate's new master was notorious rake Reginald Davenport, and Alys found she could not trust herself to defeat his seductive designs. Original Regency...
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Beautiful Alys Weston had found refuge from heartbreak by masquerading as a man and becoming the manager of an isolated country estate. But the estate's new master was notorious rake Reginald Davenport, and Alys found she could not trust herself to defeat his seductive designs. Original Regency romance.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451161437 (0451161432)
ASIN: 451161432
Publish date: September 5th 1989
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Davenport Family (#2)
Opening Line: “When two gentlemen are related by blood, they do not usually address each other with formality.” Based on all the glowing reviews and accolades THE RAKE has received I was really looking forward to sinking my teeth into this regency romance. And I guess because I’d heard so many go...
I can see why this one won a RITA award. Reggie and Alyce are some of the most layered characters in a romance I've read recently. I found Reggie very realistic in his struggles with alcoholism and reforming. Alyce was a slightly less deep character but only because we've read the beautiful-woman-wh...
Alys, has for the past four years worked as a Estate Manager for Strickland. Very few know that the estate manager is a woman. Alys has had to do everything to make a life for herself; and its been far from easy. When she overhears a conversation that her fiancee is only marrying her for her money, ...
The RakeIt was predicted that Reginald Davenport, disinherited and disgraced, would come to a violent end. But fate has given him one final chance to redeem himself, by taking his place as the rightful master of Strickland, his lost ancestral estate. Davenport knows his way around women—yet nothing ...
One of my all-time favorite romances. Picture-perfect.Reginald Davenport has one last chance at redemption, he's drinking too much, but Strickland, his boyhood home, is returned to him. He's assured that the current estate manager A. E. Weston is extremely competent and he can live off the income. B...
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