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If you like spicy historical romances, you're going to love this exclusive excerpt from Erica Ridley's Taming the Rake! She's one of the writing queens in this area! Download your copy and then follow the tour for even more! Best of luck entering the giveaway!

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.

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By the time Gladys’s brain managed to string a few syllables together, their frantic embraces had become delightfully—if worryingly—torrid. Gladys’s painstakingly curled hair was now hopelessly disheveled. Mr. Medford’s hand was now… Good God… on her breast?

There was no hiding the state of her nipples from him now. They were poking out in the night air, taking turns being toyed with between his fingers.

The sensation awakened all sorts of things she was pretty certain ought to stay dormant at a public venue, which was neither the time nor the place to act on this avalanche of new feelings.

Mr. Medford could not possibly intend to consummate their betrothal out here in the garden… Could he? In any case, Gladys could not possibly do so, not until the betrothal contract was signed.

Then again, she supposed that by ton standards, she was already well and compromised. Had been so, in fact, ever since they shared their first kiss. Progressing from kissing to touching guaranteed a wedding was imminent. Perhaps Mr. Medford was the one with a special license in his pocket, just waiting for the first chance to tug Gladys down the aisle.

Her unfathomable success tonight made her head spin. She’d known the week-long fête was a matchmaking festival, and she’d heard that every bachelor present was on the hunt for a bride, but she hadn’t understood what those circumstances meant for her until tonight. She’d barely been here an hour, and had experienced one first after another. Her first dance, her first proposal, her first kiss, her second suitor…

If this were London, she might have feared she’d found herself in the arms of a rake. But no rakehell, London-bred or otherwise, would have picked Gladys above all the rest or even recognized her name. Mr. Medford didn’t only know exactly who she was, he had been seeking her all along. His kisses were nothing short of transcendent. It wouldn’t feel this good if it weren’t true love on both sides.

His accelerated time frame might not be the traditional courtship Gladys had always dreamt of, but it was certainly expedient. Why drag out the suspense for the entire week of the festival, if they were ready to pick permanent partners here and now?

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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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