Does this book need to be read in order with the rest of the series?

While this is the first full-length novel in The League of Rogues series, the books are designed to function with their own individual storylines. You can follow the overarching connections between the members of the league as the series progresses, but each title focuses on a different central romance.

Is there a prequel I should look for?

The series includes a prequel titled The Wicked Beginning, which is numbered as book 0.5. It provides additional background on the characters and the formation of the group before the events of this novel.

Wicked Designs

Historical Romance Regency

Pages: 310
Published: 2013
Language: English

Synopsis

Emily Parr is an orphaned heiress living under her uncle's control. His business associate presses unwanted attentions on her, and she has settled on a plan to escape: marry a kind gentleman whose good nature will let her keep her inheritance and her independence.

The plan collapses when Godric St. Laurent, Duke of Essex, abducts her. Her uncle embezzled from him, and Godric means to punish the man through his niece.

Godric is a rake who has no wish to marry. His life is his club and the company of his four closest friends, and behind his green eyes and careless charm he carries old wounds. Emily's sweetness and quick wit begin to stir a longing he gave up on long ago: real love.

This is a historical romance about a captor and his captive, with passion growing between them as the story goes on. The tone is playful, built around a heroine who refuses to stay kidnapped and a circle of charming rogues, though Godric's shadowed past threatens to take away the woman he has come to need. It is the first book in the League of Rogues series by Lauren Smith.

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