New Release: Gone with the Rake!
Mar 06, 2025 10:01 am
Happy March and Happy Birthday to me! (yes, it's today)
But that’s not the only reason to celebrate… Gone with the Rake is out now!
It's steamy, it's angsty, it's romantic and full of witty fun. And it's available now in Kindle Unlimited.
If you enjoy the following tropes, you'll love the book:
- Second Chance
- Class difference
- Forbidden love
- Secret identity
- Fall in love through letters
- Masquerade
- Angst + Longing
- Wit + Fun
And it has a bunch of easter eggs for my devoted readers! (Let's see if you can spot them all)
Lady Lydia Lawless is a thief. Her family fortune? A lie. To start a new, honest life, she needs to steal one last thing—a family heirloom from a charming viscount.
There’s just one problem.
The viscount is a man from her past. And to steal the jewel… she’ll have to get him naked.
Viscount Arthur Thornton has many regrets. Letting go of his first love is the greatest. Now, fate gives him a second chance… But if he claims it, he risks losing everything.
Including life as he knows it.
For those who have already finished the book, tell me, what was your favorite part? And whose book from the side characters are you most excited for?
Honoria gets her story next. And I will be revealing the cover for the book very soon.
Jacob Caldwell is many things—a botanist, an entomologist, an industrialist, and, if he’s being honest, a complete disaster of a guardian. He barely remembers to eat, let alone raise the three children suddenly thrust into his care. What he needs is a housekeeper who is competent, invisible, and entirely uninteresting.
Honoria Hartwell is none of those things. What she is, however, is a liar. Hiding in plain sight as a housekeeper is the safest way to escape her horrid past. But when the lure of her old life proves too irresistible, she takes one reckless risk and... finds herself in the arms of her employer.
Now, Honoria is trapped between two lives and drowning in a web of lies. When her past finally catches up with her, will the man she has started to love come to her rescue or abandon her to her fate?
Have you read my installment from the Rake Review series? Mad Duke March can be read any month of the year!
But this month it is especially fitting!
Whisky. Plenty of it. Keep it coming…
That’s all that Alexander Blackwood, the notorious “Mad Duke” of London, desires. Determined to waste his life away, he manages to offend even his closest friends. But when he carelessly ruins Miss Emily Fitzwilliam while in a drunken stupor, he finds himself chained to the only woman in England who refuses to fear or fawn over him.
It was the best day of her life… Until it wasn’t.
Emily Fitzwilliam loses everything when she is scandalously ruined by the most notorious rake London has ever known. And worst of all, the bounder refuses to marry her! But the wicked Duke who destroyed her life is about to discover that payback is hell.
A hasty marriage neither party wanted is about to become a passionate battle of wills as two warring hearts are destined to become one flesh… whether they like it or not.
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A summer to remember. . .
Charming bachelor Rhys Davies has absolutely no intention of falling for anyone with the surname Montgomery. The rivalry between their two families is legendary, after all, and despite all three of his siblings succumbing to the fatal attractions of the enemy, Rhys is convinced he’s immune. Until one night, when he meets Lenore Montgomery—and promptly loses his wits.
A week he’ll never forget. . .
Lenore Montgomery has wrestled a giant water snake in Brazil, chased a panther with a shoe, and survived an unfortunate shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar, but none of those things has been as difficult as seducing Rhys Davies. The stubborn man’s been ignoring her all season, so when she hears they’ll both be attending a week-long family party at his country estate, she enlists the help of her meddling relatives to prove there’s nothing as irresistible as forbidden fruit. . . especially when it might lead to true love.
Dominic Eastland, the Duke of Cuthbert, is a known wastrel in polite society, but he harbors an even greater secret. In London’s seedy underworld he’s known as “Avalon,” the leader of a cutthroat gang. However, he’s recently decided it’s time for someone else to rule in his stead. He owes respectability to his line and his brother who died young and never had the chance to inherit the title, so it’s time to put his past transgressions aside and attempt to become an honorable man by doing his duty and taking a wife.
But then he sees her and suddenly he doesn’t want to be that good anymore.
Miss Alexandra Givenwald has lived a life of simplicity under her father’s roof where she was generally ignored. When she gets the chance to go to London under the pretense of finding a husband, she has other ideas in mind. Her aunt would be thrilled if she married well, and has picked a suitable gentleman, but Lexie cares not for the strictures of a union. She wants to experience passion and explore what freedoms life has to offer.
From the moment she sees him, she knows he can fulfill her deepest desires.
The attraction between Dominic and Lexie is instant, and although she is continuously warned away from him by the man himself, she is drawn toward him that much deeper. As true villains are revealed, they must embark on a perilous journey that will risk more than just the danger posed to their hearts.
He's back in her life, and his life is in her hands!
Lady Marcia Calderbank is hardly a typical duke’s daughter—she's confident, lethal, and still unmarried at thirty-two. But that’s because her heart was shattered a decade ago by her brother’s best friend. Instead of love, she chose dangerous investigative work, solving crimes alongside her brother in their infamous detective agency.
Now, the Crown has handed her an impossible mission: prove that the new Baron Tostinham is a murderer. The very same man who once left her heart in ruins. To get close enough to uncover the truth, she’ll have to seduce him all over again.
But the deeper she digs, the murkier the case becomes—and the harder it is to ignore the passion that never died between them. Betraying him means losing him forever, but protecting him could cost everything, including her brother’s trust and the Crown’s favor.
Marcia must choose: her duty, her family… or the man she swore never to love again. If she waits too long, the choice might be made for her.
Cheers,
Sadie
