Persuading a Gentleman

A country solicitor. A brazen earl’s daughter. A mystery finally solved.

Gideon Darby has built a quiet, orderly life as a country solicitor, and he intends to keep it that way. He doesn't gamble. He doesn't drink to excess. And he most certainly does not travel to London — a city his mother warned him, with her dying breath, to avoid at all costs.

But when the Duke of Roxboro’s solicitor sends him a frantic, ink-blotted letter summoning him to the duke’s estate, he can’t refuse…. especially after he’s entrusted with a mysterious package.

Lady Carmela Sheffington is on her way to the Duke of Roxboro’s estate mostly to avoid her father. Lord Halstead demands she wed or lose her inheritance. She’ll wed, of course, but to a man of Carmela’s choosing. He must be lowborn enough to embarrass her father. Proper and honorable so that once seduced, he’ll wed her. She’s considering the coach’s driver or possibly Roxboro’s butler, when the most magnificent man she’s ever seen appears in the road.

When an unexpected storm traps Gideon with Carmela at an inn, passion springs up between them…but so do assailants meaning to do them harm. All over a small package Gideon keeps in his coat pocket. He begins to wonder if he’ll survive the journey to Roxboro’s estate…and Carmela’s attempts at seduction.

But it is the truths revealed by the mysterious parcel Gideon carries that will threaten his very existence and challenge everything he’s ever known.

Persuading a Gentleman is the thrilling conclusion to the London Vices Trilogy.