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No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (The Rules of Scoundrels – Book 3), by Sarah MacLean
Read more: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (The Rules of Scoundrels – Book 3), by Sarah MacLean“If you treat me like a whore, you’re going to pay me like one.” I hated Mara from the very start of this book. I decided immediately that this wouldn’t be my favourite in the series. I thought Temple — a character we’d already come to know from the previous books — deserved better. I…
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A Rogue by Any Other Name (The First Rule of Scoundrels), by Sarah MacLean
Read more: A Rogue by Any Other Name (The First Rule of Scoundrels), by Sarah MacLean“The Eight of Diamonds ruined him.” That’s how the first book in this four-part saga begins. In a dark, decadent place, our hero, the Marquess of Bourne, gambles away everything he has, everything that until then defined him as a member of the British aristocracy.
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One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels Series – Book 2), by Sarah MacLean
Read more: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels Series – Book 2), by Sarah MacLean“I require ruination” That’s no ordinary request, but then Lady Philippa Marbury, aka Pippa, is no ordinary woman. That much was already clear in the first book of the series, which introduces the tall, slender young woman with glasses, big blue eyes, and blonde hair as the sister of Penelope Marbury — by now the…
