Never Kiss an Earl at Midnight by Tammy Andresen
A bluestocking and a rake…
Lady Victoria Ducat has an orderly life filled with academic pursuits and the care of her ailing father. She has no use for a drunken rake like the Earl of Kissinger. Just because he is handsome, charming, and he makes her knees weak doesn’t mean she’s going to give up her principles. So what if Lord Kissinger looks at her the way no man has before? She’ll just ignore the heat in his gaze and the breathless want it brings. She had a plan and she’ll stick to it, which is a far sight better than getting her heart broken…isn’t it?
Kenneth Kissinger, known to his friends as Key, is happy living his life outside of polite society, drinking and gaming to his heart’s content. He has no use for debutantes and even less for a bluestocking and a wallflower like Lady Victoria. Except those plump lips call to him. Without a word, they promise sinful delights. Her actions speak as well, as she puts the needs of everyone in her family before her own. What would it be like to have the love of a woman like that?
But as fate, a bet, and family drama toss them together temptation becomes more difficult to deny. Can they resist temptation or will they share the kiss that has been foretold?
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- Original Title:Never Kiss an Earl at Midnight: How to Reform a Rake
- Creator:Tammy Andresen
- Language:en
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Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Title Page
- 3. Contents
- 4. Untitled
- 5. Chapter 1
- 6. Chapter 2
- 7. Chapter 3
- 8. Chapter 4
- 9. Chapter 5
- 10. Chapter 6
- 11. Chapter 7
- 12. Chapter 8
- 13. Chapter 9
- 14. Chapter 10
- 15. Chapter 11
- 16. Chapter 12
- 17. Chapter 13
- 18. Chapter 14
- 19. Chapter 15
- 20. Chapter 16
- 21. Epilogue
- 22. Make a Viscount Beg
- 23. Other Titles by Tammy Andresen
- 24. About the Author
Short. Cute.
Never Kiss an Earl at Midnight, Book 4 of the How to Reform a Rake series, was about Lady Victoria "Vic" Ducat, twin sister to Cristina Ducat, and fourth daughter of Lord Harold Rosemond, the Earl of Ducat, and Lord Kenneth "Key" Kissinger, the Earl of Kissinger, friend to the Duke of Longley, The Marquess of Highwater, the Earl of Clearwood, and the Viscount of Averstone. Having watched three of her four sisters find love with their new husbands, Victoria was determined she would never marry. She was determined to take care of her father, whose mental health was failing, and to follow through with her desires of the study of animals and their habitats. She didn't want to give up her dreams to marry, since most men didn't want their wives to be bluestockings. Most men of her acquaintance considered her too bookish and even a bore. Therefore, she did not plan on marrying anyone, especially not Lord Kissinger, any time soon. She knew that Society considered Key to be a rake, a drunk, and even a handsome degenerate. Not someone she could relate to where her bluestocking ways were concerned. Key and his four friends had been taking a carriage ride to the Earl of Clearwood's estate in Dover just days before Christmas when they had gotten snowed in at a brothel in Canterbury. While there, they had each entered into a bet with each other and a gypsy fortune teller named Vadoma to collect a kiss from one lady of worth. The chosen ladies were the five Ducat sisters: Camille, Cristina, Victoria (who were twins), Lily, and Adelaide. As each one fulfilled their part of the bet, they each went further and ended up married to a sister. Key was determined such a fate would not be his. He was content to live outside of polite society, filling his days and nights by drinking and gaming as much as he wanted. But what no one knew was that he did so to hide what he considered to be his mistakes, failures, a man rejected and hated by his family. While both Victoria and Key were determined to not fulfill the bet (by this time all the sisters knew about it), neither one could deny the attraction that pulled them together time after time. Once again the humor was well meted and well placed in the story. The drama and angst were powerful, and the heartache of watching a loved one deteriorate was never more touching. Of all the books so far in the series, this one was the best by far. It has been the only one (with one book remaining in the series) to have earned a 5-star rating. It won't be added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection, but that's due to the grammatical and other errors more than it has to do with the story itself.