The Rake and the Reformer — Mary Jo Putney

PASSION'S PERILOUS PROGRESS

Beautiful Alys Weston had found a refuge from heartbreak in a most unlikely post. Fleeing a treacherous suitor, she had become manager of an isolated country estate by masquerading by mail as a man.

But now her masquerade was over. The estate had a new master, whom she had to meet face-to-face. Even worse, that master was the notorious Reginald Davenport, the handsomest rake in the Ton, for whom no rule was sacred and with whom no woman was safe.

Alys had vowed never to trust a man again, and Davenport's lurid reputation should have made that easy. But how could Alys have imagined, when she set out to defeat his seductive designs, that she would not be able to trust herself...?

(Reissued as "The Rake.")