Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale
A Quaker woman must decide whether to save — or love — the rakehell society has locked away as a madman.
Description
Apparently driven mad by a tragedy, London's most famous rakehell is saved by the healing love of a woman who once feared the tormented nobleman.
Books like this
Thunder & Roses (Fallen Angels, #1)
Mary Jo Putney
A ruined rake demands a minister's daughter live with him for 3 months — the price of saving her village.
9 tropes in common
At the Bride Hunt Ball (Devine & Friends, #1)
Olivia Parker
A rake duke hosts a ball to find his brother a bride — but can't stop pursuing the one woman who despises him.
6 tropes in common
The Duke's Inconvenient Bride
Jayne Rivers
When her sister jilts a duke, shy Lady Emma must marry him instead — but he wants nothing to do with her.
8 tropes in common
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever (Bevelstoke, #1)
Julia Quinn
She fell in love with him at ten — now he's bitter and broken, and she refuses to give up on him.
8 tropes in common
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers, #1)
Sarah MacLean
A forgotten wallflower decides to break every rule — starting with seducing London's most scandalous rake.
7 tropes in common
Heart Bones
Colleen Hoover
A girl escaping poverty spends one last summer with a brooding rich stranger — and both their hearts pay the price.
9 tropes in common
The Perfect Rake (The Merridew Sisters, #1)
Anne Gracie
A plain but witty eldest sister cons a notorious rake into a fake engagement to free her beautiful sisters.
6 tropes in common
A Lady Awakened (Blackshear Family, #1)
Cecilia Grant
A desperate widow pays her rakish neighbor to father her heir — but refuses to enjoy a single moment of it.
9 tropes in common
Rule (Marked Men, #1)
Jay Crownover
A tattooed rebel and the good girl secretly in love with him can't deny their chemistry any longer.
9 tropes in common
Reforming a Rake (With This Ring, #1)
Suzanne Enoch
A by-the-book governess tries to resist her scandalous rake of an employer — and his devastating kisses.
7 tropes in common
The Rogue Not Taken
Sarah MacLean
A scandal-fleeing wallflower and a notorious rake are trapped together on a carriage to Scotland.
6 tropes in common
Devil's Bride and A Rake's Vow (Cynster #1-2)
Stephanie Laurens
Two Cynster rakes meet their matches in women who refuse to be swept off their feet — but danger changes everything.
5 tropes in common
Ravished
Amanda Quick
A bluestocking fossil hunter hires the scarred, reclusive 'Beast' to guard her caves — and steals his heart.
6 tropes in common
Emma
Jane Austen
A clever, meddling matchmaker meddles her way into missing the love right in front of her.
5 tropes in common
Artistic License
Elle Pierson
A shy art student can't stop sketching the brooding security guard who thinks no one could ever want him.
8 tropes in common
Come As You Are
Jess K. Hardy
A tattooed ex-grunge rocker with a fear of heights woos a flustered ski hill owner one mixtape at a time.
7 tropes in common
Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance
Kathryn Colvin
A destitute Victorian widow apprentices under a fearsome, masked sorcerer — and falls dangerously in love.
7 tropes in common
One Week Girlfriend (One Week Girlfriend, #1)
Monica Murphy
A bad-boy footballer hires the campus 'prude' as his tutor — but wants lessons in more than academics.
9 tropes in common
Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1)
Lisa Kleypas
A penniless beauty must resist a roguish entrepreneur who wants her as his mistress — not his wife.
7 tropes in common
Stranger in My Arms
Lisa Kleypas
Her cold husband was lost at sea — but the warm, passionate man who returned may not be him at all.
8 tropes in common