The Rake and the Recluse

This edition is discontinued but the book is available in an all new edition with the same title.Francine is just ready to start her life, then a car accident changes everything. She isn't badly injured but she also isn't where she started. She wakes up in Victorian England, and is being cared for by an angry Duke with little patience for her as an interloper. Even so, the man is attractive beyond compare and she just wants to touch him. All of him. Gideon, the duke, for his part feels bad that he almost ran down a stranger in his carriage. But she shouldn't have been there, frankly, and he doesn't have time to deal with the responsibility of making sure she recovers well. He's a very busy man. Busy pining over a woman he's never met, has no known pedigree and turns him on like nobody he's ever laid eyes on. What will he do? His brother Perry has likewise been caught up in a carriage incident, finding a runaway housemaid in his carriage as he's bound for London. His brother is going to kill him if something happens to one of his staff. That something being his rakish brother Perry, of course. But Lilly has other ideas. She likes the idea of seducing a rake who refuses to touch her. It seems like just the right challenge to sooth her damaged soul. Two complete love stories in one beautiful book. THE BOOKS IN THE LORDS OF TIME SERIES: THE RAKE AND THE RECLUSE : BOOK ONE in the Lords of Time SeriesTHE DUKE AND THE BARON : BOOK TWO in the Lords of Time SeriesTHE DUKE AND THE DOMINA : BOOK THREE in the Lords of Time SeriesTHE TROUBLE WITH GRACE : BOOK FOUR in the Lords of Time SeriesTHE SPARE AND THE HEIR : BOOK FIVE in the Lords of Time Series