by Jo Beverley
And, of course, produce very different stories.
With The Dragon’s Bride, these stories begin to weave into my Company of Rogues series. There’s no need to have read the Rogues books to enjoy these and subsequent ones, but the original Rogues books are being reissued. The series goes: An Arranged Marriage, An Unwilling Bride, Christmas Angel, Forbidden, and Dangerous Joy.
As you’ve doubtless guessed, in the next book, The Devil’s Heiress, Hawk Hawkinville discovers that love can strike the most resistant heart. It starts out, however, strictly as business. His despicable father has mortgaged the family home in Hawk in the Vale to pursue an inheritance from his own family. He’s succeeded in claiming the title of Lord Deveril, but found that the late viscount’s money has all been left to a Miss Clarissa Greystone, whom Lord Deveril had planned to marry.
Squire Hawkinville wants Hawk to get the money by marrying it, just as he married for Hawkinville Manor. Hawk rejects that, but he sets out to prove that the will is a forgery, and that Miss Clarissa Greystone was involved in Lord Deveril’s murder.
The trouble is, he’s right!
The next trouble is, he falls in love with Clarissa.
This tangle is soon a thorough knot, and Con, Van, and some of the Rogues will be needed to help straighten it out. Look for it in August of this year.
If you missed Van’s story, it is the novella “The Demon’s Mistress,” in the collection In Praise of Younger Men. It was published by Signet in March 2001, and so should still be available. If not, your bookstore can order it for you at no extra charge.
And what about Race de Vere? There’s a story there. Perhaps I’ll send him to try his luck with Lady Anne.
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