Six years after Lord Heath Boscastle encounters Julia Hepworth, he is asked to be her bodyguard by his commanding officer, while he tracts down an elusive spy. Heath quickly regrets his promise when he meets Julia again for their mutual desire still burns. Heath would never think of betraying his friend, until he learns that Julia herself has been betrayed. Suddenly, seduction Boscastle style is the name of the game. Yet Julia has a trick or two up her own sleeve and is determined to be a player, and not a mere pawn, in this wicked game.

Cuando Julia conoció a Heath en un aparatoso accidente de caza, era poco más que una niña impulsiva y temerosa. Por eso, tras un primer encuentro amoroso, decidió huir del posible escándalo y alejarse de él. Ha pasado el tiempo, y Julia es ahora una joven viuda que intenta regresar a la sociedad inglesa, después de varios años en la India. Para ello, le parecía una buena idea prometerse al apuesto coronel Russell. El destino, sin embargo, le pasa una mala jugada: Russell ha de partir, y encarga la custodia de su prometida a su mejor amigo? que no es otro que Heath. El joven soldado se debate entre el rencor por haber sido abandonado, la pasión que nunca dejó de sentir por ella y la lealtad hacia su amigo y compañero de armas. Pero Julia tiene sus propios planes en este juego a tres bandas. Una aventura romántica en la Inglaterra victoriana en la que el azar da a los protagonistas una segunda oportunidad para encontrar el amor.

When it first appeared, The English Rogue was declared a forbidden book on account of its gross indecency. Copies were printed secretly and sold furtively at alehouses until 1665 when it was properly licensed. When requested, the author, Richard Head, declined to produce a second volume as it was his belief that the text had been interpreted as autobiographical and his reputation had suffered as a consequence. Francis Kirkman, who had acquired the rights to the work, set about the endeavour himself and wrote the remaining volumes, publishing them in 1671. This is a reprint of the 1928 reissue containing Head's original book and two of Kirkman's added volumes.

Award-winning author Jillian Hunter both amuses and delights with another irresistible tale of scandal and seduction. When Chloe Boscastle is caught indiscreetly kissing a man in a park, her brother Grayson–the protective patriarch of the Boscastle family–sends her off to a country manor to stay until the scandal in town subsides. Soon after Chloe’s banishment begins, she is shocked to learn that her neighbor Dominic Breckland, the devilish Viscount Stratfield, has been killed in his bed. But she is even more stunned to discover the dangerously handsome “victim” taking refuge in her lingerie closet one night. By some miracle Dominic has survived his attack–and wishes the world to believe him dead. Can the alluring Lady Chloe keep his secret? Dominic uses all his masculine charm to persuade her as they work together to unmask his enemy. Of course, being caught sheltering a seductive scoundrel could further mar Chloe’s already tarnished reputation. But, really, what’s a little scandal to a lady in love?

Reproduction of the original: The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon and Other Extravagants by Kirkman and Head