Brenda Hiatt’s ROGUE’S HONOR – A Match made in Heaven with two Do-Gooders

Set in London in 1816, this is the story of Lady Pearl Moreston and Luke St. Clair. The physical attraction was instantaneous for Lady Pearl and Luke. They met when both were in disguise, he as a man of Seven Dials, living fairly well as he steals from the rich to help the poor, and she as a poor maid to learn to understand the poor. Two do-gooders who found each other one night in London.

 

Lady Pearl is anxious to be “ruined” so that her stepmother will stop trying to match her with the men of the ton. And Luke is only too happy to oblige. Mind you, she is the daughter of a duke, but no matter. What the lady wants she gets. Not just ruined but compromised. Though he is of common breeding (he thinks), he manages to blend in with the ton under an assumed name, even lying his way into Oxford, paying for it himself on his ill-gotten gain.

 

Luke courts her and then rises to find his lost past and become an earl. Of course there is another suitor and Pearl will accept him rather than allow her stepmother to force Luke to wed her. A bit of a merry-go-round ensues.

 

Fans of Hiatt will, no doubt, enjoy the story. It’s the first in the Seven Dials series.