Rules for a Rogue — Christy Carlyle

A sparkling new series about a rogue who must learn how to follow the rules and a woman who wants to break all of them...

Following the rules never brought anything but misery for Christopher “Kit” Ruthven. After rebelling against his controlling father and leaving the family's Ruthven Rules etiquette book empire behind, Kit has been breaking every one imaginable for the past six years. He's enjoyed London's sensual pleasures and secured his reputation as a Rogue, but he's failed to achieve success. When he inherits his father's publishing business, Kit is forced back into the life he never wanted. Worse, he must face Ophelia Marsden, the woman he jilted but never forgot.

After losing her father and refusing a loveless marriage proposal, Ophelia has learned to rely on herself. To maintain the family home and support her younger brother, she tutors young girls in deportment and decorum. But her pupils would be scandalized if they knew their imminently proper teacher was also the author of a guidebook encouraging ladies to embrace their independence and overthrow outdated notions of etiquette like the Ruthven Rules.

As Kit rediscovers the life, and the woman, he left behind, Ophelia must choose between the practicality she never truly believed in, or the love she's never been able to extinguish.