April Showers Bring... Rakes!
Apr 01, 2026 7:31 pm
Lovely readers!
I know historical romance readers are ready for April because that means a new read by Tracy Sumner! Much Ado About April is out now!
Also, my addition to the Rake Review, Season 2 is now up for pre-order! You can make sure Remington Ives (owner of the Grand Folly Theater, wearer of earrings, and DEFINITELY THE JUNE RAKE WHY DO YOU DOUBT HIM???) and Tessa King (a lady out to live life for herself who just happens to know Remmy too well to ever believe he's the sort of scoundrel described by the Brazen Belle) make it to your e-reader on June 1!
I'm finishing up final edits of this fiesta little book now, and I'm loving the playfulness Tessa and Remmy bring to their childhood friends to lovers romance. There's a big cooky family, some unexpectedly early spicy scenes, and the kind of love that builds you up or breaks you into pieces.
In fact, I can't help myself... have a little unedited sneak peek!
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Six years. Six damn years she’d been lost to him through all but ink and ocean-wrinkled paper, each epistle coming longer after the last until she’d stopped writing him altogether. Still wrote to his mother. Just last month Mama had told him Tessa was doing well. Hadn’t said a thing about her returning though.
Yet there she was. Sharper, brighter, and more goddamn beautiful than he remembered.
He thought he’d forgotten her, thought he’d put her away in a little box marked youthful folly.
But his heart was thumping madly in his chest as it used to do, and his palms were sweating, and his fingertips ached to touch her, to confirm she was real.
If he’d put her in a box, she’d found a way out.
He curled and uncurled his hands. Control. Tessa here now was not part of the play. The unexpected arrival of a former lover not in this narrative. There was only a rake, the women he used and discarded, and the mysterious belle who would write about it.
Hopefully.
He should return to his office as if he’d never seen her.
But he couldn’t bloody help himself.
“Good evening, Miss King,” he said, stepping out of the shadows and into the dim yellow still cast by the dying stage lights.
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Happy reading,
Charlie Lane
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