My Fake Rake (The Union of the Rakes, Book 1)
By (Author) Eva Leigh
Book 1
HarperCollins Publishers
Mills & Boon
27th May 2020
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Romantic suspense
Historical fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
813.6
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
270g
Charming, witty, and thoroughly adorable! Youll fall in love with Grace and Sebastian[Eva Leigh is] One of my favorite authors. Her books are pure romantic delight. Tessa Dare on My Fake Rake
a jolt of electricity, a blast of fresh air everything delightful and exciting you could want it to be. New York Times Book Review on My Fake Rake
This superbly entertaining, perfectly executed Regency-set love story is not only dazzlingly witty and intensely sexy; it is also a sweetly crafted love letter about the power of learning, literature, and lifelong friendships. BookList on My Fake Rake
Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Her solution: to create the perfect man, to act as her suitor, and help her catch his eye. Graces colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires.
To further his own research on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashingalbeit fakerake. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Graces feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. If only she hadnt asked him to help her marry someone else
Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. Yet when hes faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own futureand his heart.
The first in a new series by Eva Leigh, is a jolt of electricity, a blast of fresh air everything delightful and exciting you could want it to be. New York Times Book Review
This superbly entertaining, perfectly executed Regency-set love story is not only dazzlingly witty and intensely sexy; it is also a sweetly crafted love letter about the power of learning, literature, and lifelong friendships. BookList on My Fake Rake
Eva Leigh is the pen name of a RITA Award-nominated romance author who writes novels chock-full of smart women and sexy men. She enjoys baking, Tweeting about boots, and listening to music from the '80s. Eva and her husband live in Southern California.