The Wickedest Lord Alive
Christina Brooke
St. Martin's Paperbacks, Jul 1 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9781250029362
Marquis Xavier Westruther enters the dark room offering his new
wife escape as neither wanted this marriage.
Lady Alexandria says they should consummate and they do. As he leaves, he vows to leave his marchioness
alone as she deserves better than a rogue like him paying off his mother’s debt
to her father by marrying her. Not long
afterward, confused by her husband’s actions especially disappearing on their
wedding night, Lady Alexandra vanishes too.
Eight years later, Xavier arrives in Little Thurston where his
wife pretends to be amnesiac Lizzie Allbright, who lives with the kind parson
and helps those in need. Infamous as the
Notorious Bachelor, Xavier explains to Alexandria he needs an heir or his
avarice family will take control of a fortune.
Alexandria prefers he leaves the village except when he kisses her. As they fall in love, his mother arrives in
this sleepy hollow.
The third Westruthers' Regency
romance (see London's Last True Scoundrel and
The Greatest Lover Ever) is an engaging historical. Christina Brooke provides her fans with a
wonderful second chance at love (though the first chance ended in premature
rejection) starring two stubborn protagonists whose relationship never began.
Harriet Klausner
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