Taming the Rake by Erica Ridley with excerpt and giveaway

by Erica Ridley

GENRE: Historical Romance

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Enjoy a fiery, passionate enemies-to-lovers revenge romance from a New York Times bestselling author!

All her life, Miss Gladys Bell was a wallflower whose parents despaired of her ever attracting a suitor. Then she met the man of her dreams, who said she was the woman of his. One passionate night later, Gladys awaits a marriage proposal that never comes. Reuben Medford, the ton’s most notorious rake, doesn’t even remember her name.

Thanks to his cold-hearted callousness, Gladys lost her reputation, her dowry, and her chance at love. But now she’s back, and bent on revenge. He’s trifled with the wrong woman: This wallflower has thorns. Once Gladys holds that damnable rake’s arrogant, fickle heart in her hands… She’ll crush it, just as he did to her.

This time, he’ll remember her name.

EXCERPT:

A hand closed around Gladys’s wrist. She yelped as she was yanked against a tall, hard wall of man. Before she could catch her breath or her balance, his arms were around her and his mouth claimed hers.

Gladys reacted in kind out of habit—and also out of nostalgia, and hope, and surprise—until she gathered her wits enough to splay her hands on the mystery man’s chest and push him far enough away to catch a moonlit glimpse of his face.

Reuben Medford.

Again.

“You,” she gasped, and slammed the side of her fist against his broad chest.

He let her go in equal surprise. “You!”

“Who did you think I was?” she snapped.

“For a moment, I thought you were… Someone I… Never mind.” The shifting shadows made it look as though the rake was blushing. “Forgive me my mistake. I wasn’t waiting for anyone. I had intended to be alone.”

“Then why did you… Ugh.” Gladys turned away without waiting for an answer. She didn’t need one. He’d told her himself: he wasn’t waiting on anyone in particular.

This wasn’t a romantic nook. This was Medford’s hunting ground. Five years ago, a little lost wallflower had believed their kiss to be a special moment. Had even believed, if only for a moment, that she was special. Instead, she was nothing more than the latest victim of a rakehell’s signature lustful maneuver.

Gladys wanted a fairy tale? She was in one. And they didn’t all end happily. The sculpture garden was the deep, dark forest. Medford was the iron trap, his metal jaws gaping and deadly, awaiting his prey. Any prey. It didn’t matter. And she was the fluffy, innocent bunny whose gamboling pink paw happened to fall right in his path.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Erica Ridley is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of witty, feel-good historical romance novels, including THE DUKE HEIST, starring the Wild Wynchesters. Why seduce a duke the normal way, when you can accidentally kidnap one in an elaborately planned heist?

In the 12 Dukes of Christmas series, enjoy witty, heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. After all, nothing heats up a winter night quite like finding oneself in the arms of a duke!

Two popular series, the Dukes of War and Rogues to Riches, feature roguish peers and dashing war heroes who find love amongst the splendor and madness of Regency England.

When not reading or writing romances, Erica can be found eating couscous in Morocco, zip-lining through rainforests in Central America, or getting hopelessly lost in the middle of Budapest.

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Erica Ridley will be awarding a Winner’s choice ebook or paperback copies of the first TWO books in the Wicked Dukes Club series! (ebooks international) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

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