Bianca is committed to the family pottery business and works on the dyes and her own designs. Bianca and Max have good chemistry and it is obvious from the start that they share a mutual fascination. I love a good marriage of convenience story and, for the most part, About a Rogue delivers. The following morning, in an attempt to placate her furious father, prevent the shares he’d bestowed on Max leaving the family, and head off a suit for breach of promise, Bianca agrees to marry Max instead and the two embark upon a marriage of convenience with Bianca continuing to believe the worst of Max and Max happy to at last be on the path to a secure and lucrative future. Bianca is convinced that Max is a scoundrel so when Bianca discovers Cathy’s plan to elope with Mayne, she supports the plan and, the night before Cathy’s marriage to Max, aids in the couple’s elopement. Cathy, while feeling obligated to abide by her father’s wishes and marry the cousin of a duke, is already in love with the local vicar Mr. That’s exactly what Cathy’s sister Bianca is worried about. With Cathy in Marslip and Max spending most of his time in London showcasing and selling the wares from Tate’s business, Max figures he can still indulge his roguish side and also enjoy the benefits of financial security. His plan is to marry the beautiful, dutiful younger Tate daughter Cathy and become a successful businessman. He travels to Marslip Hill in Stafforshire where the Tate family owns a very successful pottery manufactory. Now, with the funds provided by the Duchess, he is able to act on his plans.

Max has always lived on the fringes of society, supporting himself through his talent at gambling, but he has been making plans for the past few years to become completely respectable and financially stable. Two of the three candidates for the next Duke of Carlyle have been located and the Duchess admonishes them to change their ways and start behaving as a future duke should, and she offers to fund their transitions. James is one of the potential heirs called to Carlyle Castle by the aging Duchess of Carlyle. In book one of the series, About a Rogue, Maximilian St.

I love the premise of this series – an ailing duke suddenly without a successor, the search for potential heirs on a sparse family tree and the challenge to the heirs from the elderly duchess to start acting like ‘duke material’.

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