Widowed Louisa Peabody tolerates no man's touch. Her past has shown her men are seducers and abusers. After she inadvertently saves Gabriel’s life, she persuades him to help her stage a daring rescue from a prison hulk in the Thames. But it’s a devil’s bargain: Can she protect herself from that wild, reckless fire in his eyes? Can he care for anyone but himself?
Book 1 in the Maitland's Rogues series of Regency historical romances featuring daring rogues who risk all for their country during the Napoleonic wars. Hardened and deadly, they have no use for love -- until it ensnares them.
Eileen Putman is the author of a dozen British historical and Regency romances. Her love of England’s Regency period (1811-1820) has inspired her research trips to England, Ireland, Wales, France and other countries — there being no substitute for stepping on the soil that Beau Brummell and his champagne-polished Hessians once trod.