Iron Canuck Reviews & More: Book Tour: Taming the Rake (Lords in Love) by Erica Ridley with an excerpt and a giveaway

Taming the Rake

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:

Reuben’s heart stopped.

There she was. The woman of his dreams. Long, chestnut hair, twisted into an elegant chignon. Dark brown eyes framed by even darker lashes. Voluptuous curves, shown to perfection in a demure sunflower-yellow day dress made innocently lewd by the insistent breeze pressing against her bosom and thighs, and the backlighting of the setting sun casting the exquisite body beneath into a tantalizing silhouette.

His flesh heated and his cock stirred. All thoughts of returning to his hotel room to dive back into his history tome vanished. He wanted her. He had to have her. No one else would do. She reminded him too much of…

Of course this woman wasn’t Lady Dawn. He knew that. Over the past five years, Reuben had done his best to avoid Alsop—easy, since the man had moved to Wales, where he’d built a stunning country estate—but nonetheless, Reuben’s tortured ears had overheard countless acquaintances mention Alsop was happily married. Not just happily! Obnoxiously, boastfully, eagerly leg-shackled to a wife that…tolerated him for some reason.

It was enough to make a grown rake vomit.

But this was no time to revisit the past. Not when there was a gorgeous woman in Reuben’s very near future.

Yes, yes, any time he made the mistake of attending a social gathering, he was surrounded by gorgeous women—but he wasn’t interested in them. Reuben would rather be playing solitaire alone than bored in a crowd. Events like these had become excruciating. For the past five years, the women surrounding him were too blond, too tall, too ginger, too thin, too… not Lady Dawn.

Until today. Reuben pushed past the ladybirds flocking him, making flimsy excuses as he hurried down the grotto as quickly as his boots could carry him.

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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Buy links:

https://books.apple.com/us/book/taming-the-rake/id6443430309

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFP2NPBC/

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/taming-the-rake-erica-ridley/1142269126?ean=2940186632672

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/taming-the-rake-1

https://books2read.com/2TamingTheRake

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GIVEAWAY

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.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f4539/