Lady Rogue — Carole Nelson Douglas

SHE'S AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TEMPTRESS
blazing a trail through the drawing rooms, theaters, and gambling salons of eighteenth-century London, determined to destroy her father's name.

SHE THINKS HERSELF QUITE WICKED
and is sure she has no heart -- until she meets her match, a notorious and dashing nobleman who knows a bit more than she does about sweet revenge...

A witty historical romance from the author of Good Night, Mr. Holmes, a New York Times Notable Book and Mystery Award Winner. An 18-year-old temptress determined to destroy her father's name blazes a trail through 18th-century London -- until she meets her match.

A WOULD-BE TEMPTRESS MEETS THE MASTER OF THE GAME -- Dazzling, headstrong, vulnerable Rue Morgan; determined to destroy her cruel father's reputation, she will blaze a vengeful trail through London society's glittering mansions, theaters and drawing rooms -- even to its gambling salons and madhouses....

And to the most secret private club in England.

Rue Morgan thinks herself wicked -- wicked and sure that her heart is closed forever to all but the heady perfume of revenge -- until she meets gamester Varian Temple, a notorious and dashing nobleman who seeks his own revenge and who knows how to win what he wants. At any cost....

And what he wants from Rue Morgan is the heart she says she does not have.