Kate BatemanRomance · Historical Fiction
A Wicked Game The Ruthless Rivals
Synopsis
Captain Morgan Davies has come back to London with two goals. A faulty map left him shipwrecked and then imprisoned, and he wants the cartographer who drew it to pay. He also means to collect on an old wager: three kisses from Harriet Montgomery, the prickly woman who has been his nemesis for years.
Harriet is the mapmaker he is hunting, though Morgan does not know it at first. She has plenty to worry about already. Another cartographer is copying her work, and her father is losing his eyesight. A taunting Davies turning up in her life is the last thing she needs.
The revenge plot soon tangles with an attraction that neither of them can shake. Then danger from Morgan's past puts them both at risk, and the two rivals have to rely on each other.
This is a Regency-set enemies-to-lovers romance built on a family feud, with a witty, bantering tone. It is the third book in the Ruthless Rivals series. Expect sparring and a slow dismantling of old grudges, with a plot that keeps the pair in each other's company.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10




