the rogue's conquest continues the story of the townsend family, picking up some time after enchanting the earl left off, the siblings stories continue with science-minded eleanor getting a chance on center stage.
eleanor has recently published a paper on the mating habits of a beetle that has been honored by a natural science society in edinburgh. because the society will not publish work by women, she used a pseudonym. and when she is invited to speak before members of the society about her work, she really wants to go.
and so, cecil townsend is born. but what eleanor doesn't count on is prizefighter james macgregor to suss out that she is a woman in disguise. he's been looking for a way to court another debutante and decides to blackmail eleanor for an introduction.
when the ploy works he blackmails eleanor for dance lessons and then for a ball. eleanor wishes she could hate james for the blackmail and for his plan, but she kind of admires him. he's charming and unruffled and has absolutely no shame. and eleanor who is used to bowing to society's strictures loves that about him.
there's a lot she loves about james. and james finds himself wanting to spend more and more time with eleanor, making up reasons to see her that have nothing to do with his plan or his blackmail. and soon he has reason to question what his plan will accomplish after all. because sticking to it could mean losing the one thing that has come to mean more to him than anything.
james is a delightful character, even when he is doing things that are morally suspect, he does so with such charm that you can't help but like him. it's easy to see why eleanor falls under his spell. the sheer force of his personality drives a lot of the story, and it works. he's a great hero, in part because he is not the average lord about society you usually see in these historical novels.
**the rogue's conquest will publish on september 25, 2017. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (scandalous) in exchange for my honest review.
eleanor has recently published a paper on the mating habits of a beetle that has been honored by a natural science society in edinburgh. because the society will not publish work by women, she used a pseudonym. and when she is invited to speak before members of the society about her work, she really wants to go.
and so, cecil townsend is born. but what eleanor doesn't count on is prizefighter james macgregor to suss out that she is a woman in disguise. he's been looking for a way to court another debutante and decides to blackmail eleanor for an introduction.
when the ploy works he blackmails eleanor for dance lessons and then for a ball. eleanor wishes she could hate james for the blackmail and for his plan, but she kind of admires him. he's charming and unruffled and has absolutely no shame. and eleanor who is used to bowing to society's strictures loves that about him.
there's a lot she loves about james. and james finds himself wanting to spend more and more time with eleanor, making up reasons to see her that have nothing to do with his plan or his blackmail. and soon he has reason to question what his plan will accomplish after all. because sticking to it could mean losing the one thing that has come to mean more to him than anything.
james is a delightful character, even when he is doing things that are morally suspect, he does so with such charm that you can't help but like him. it's easy to see why eleanor falls under his spell. the sheer force of his personality drives a lot of the story, and it works. he's a great hero, in part because he is not the average lord about society you usually see in these historical novels.
**the rogue's conquest will publish on september 25, 2017. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (scandalous) in exchange for my honest review.
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