One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

Lady Philippa Marbury, called Pippa, is the fourth daughter of the Marquess of Needham and Dolby. She wears spectacles, has a brilliant mind, and prefers books, plants and experiments to balls and the Season. She is engaged to Lord Castleton, a pleasant but dull man, and she accepts the marriage as her duty.

Before the wedding she has two weeks of freedom, and she means to spend them on research. The subject is the scandalous side of life that she has never been allowed to see.

For that she needs a guide to the darker corners of London. She chooses Cross, a clever and tightly controlled man who co-owns the Fallen Angel, the city's most notorious gaming hell. The wicked reputation he has built with such care makes him ideal for her purposes.

Pippa proposes an arrangement to him: ruination without its consequences, and science without emotion. Her offer puts at risk everything he has spent his life protecting.

Witty and steamy, this Regency romance is the second book in the Rules of Scoundrels quartet. The pairing is an unworldly scholar and a scoundrel who finds he cannot stay a detached observer of her experiment.