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Determined to prove himself, he sets out to run it properly — only to find the estate already has a highly capable manager: Alys Weston, who has been living disguised as a man to escape a past defined by mistrust and betrayal.\n\nAs Reginald works to control his drinking and rebuild the estate, and Alys is drawn out of the protective distance she's kept from everyone, the two form a partnership that neither expected to become something more. Mary Jo Putney treats Reginald's alcoholism and Alys's trauma with more weight than was typical for Regency romance at the time, making their mutual recovery central to the story rather than incidental to it.\n\nOriginally published as The Rake and the Reformer, it won the RITA Award for Best Regency Romance and is considered a genre landmark for its honest handling of addiction.",1989,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kvn9vx9f68cf1ct1wpmbbtx8.jpg?v=45e0ac54c0","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks-3d\u002F01\u002F01kvn9vx9f68cf1ct1wpmbbtx8.png?v=620fa40fb0","LII50%ET]K0N|-tQo{aycEpIpdxV","4.00",1,417,474,0,"pending",false,true,[17,17,17,17,17,17,17,14,17,17],[23],{"id":24,"slug":25,"name":26,"role":27,"bio":28},"01kjzsjhf8cgm7nta6wxxcnrrc","mary-jo-putney-kpdc","Mary Jo Putney","author","Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York, USA. She obtained degrees in eighteenth-century English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since, single with her cats.\r\n\r\nAfter purchasing her first computer for her freelance graphic design business, she decided to wrote her first novel. 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He doesn't expect his new estate manager, Alys Weston — disguised as a man after fleeing a life of betrayal — to be a woman, or to be the one person capable of matching him. 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As Leah's rebellion escalates, her parents, Zoe and Will, wage a desperate battle to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Justine, must bear the burden of coping with the destruction her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. In Cortland, Massachusetts, where money and image reign supreme, the Tylers, once town royalty, find themselves isolated, the subject of vicious gossip and speculation. 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