The Rogue: Rogues & Gentlemen Book 1 (Rogues and Gentlemen)

1815Along the wild and untamed coast of Cornwall, smuggling is not only a way of life, but a means of survival.Henrietta Morton knows well to look the other way when the free trading 'gentlemen' are at work. Yet when a notorious pirate, known as The Rogue, bursts in on her in the village shop, she takes things one step further. Bewitched by a pair of wicked blue eyes, in a moment of insanity she hides the handsome fugitive from the local Militia. Her reward is a kiss that she just cannot forget. But in his haste to escape with his life, her pirate drops a letter, inadvertently giving Henri incriminating information about the man she just helped free. When her father gives her hand in marriage to a wealthy and villainous nobleman in return for the payment of his debts, Henri becomes desperate. Blackmailing a pirate may be her only hope for freedom.**** Contains mild swearing and mildly graphic and descriptive sex scenes – not erotica ****