Nonetheless, Alex puts off his own business interests in Peru and takes off for Paris in pursuit of Gwen. Alex won’t let her post her letter, and doesn’t quite believe her when she says she intends to follow Pennington to Paris to retrieve her brother’s ring. She writes a letter to her former fiance, Viscount Pennington, detailing all of his flaws (critiquing everything from his horrible dancing to his kissing abilities – or lack thereof).Īs Gwen is about to post her letter, she runs into Alex Ramsey, who was her late brother’s best friend and business partner. Afterward, while her friends debate the best location for her to hide her face from society, Gwen snaps. Nonetheless, as the book begins, Gwen finds herself jilted for the second time – and this time during the marriage ceremony. Particularly the cash-strapped aristocracy.
Although she doesn’t have the perfect pedigree (her father made his fortune by patenting dyes), her looks, wealth, and genteel upbringing would seem to give her entree into the aristocracy. The quintessential “nice girl,” she’s known as everyone’s best friend.
Gwen Maudsley is attractive and perennially popular. Sexy, inventive, and riveting, it’s a book that’s hard to put down and a joy to read. It’s a lush European Historical romance that takes the reader from turn-of-the-century London to Paris to Monte Carlo. With Alex’s past and Gwen’s newly unleashed wildness on a collision course, Gwen must convince Alex that his wickedest intentions are exactly what she needs.Meredith Duran has thrown down the gauntlet: Wicked Becomes You is the book to beat for best historical romance this year. But on a wild romp from Paris to the Riviera, their friendship gives way to something hotter, darker, and altogether more dangerous. He has no wish to see her change, nor to tempt himself with her presence when his own secrets make any future between them impossible. Unbeknownst to Gwen, Alex’s aloof demeanor veils his deepest unspoken desire. So why won’t a confirmed scoundrel let her be as bad as she wants to be? Happily, she knows the perfect tutor-Alexander Ramsey, her late brother’s best friend and a notorious rogue. If nice no longer works for her, then it’s time to learn to be naughty. When a cad jilts her at the altar-again-the scandal has her outraged friends calling for blood. But what she’s best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. She’s been burned not once but twice by London’s so-call ed gentlemen.
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