Rakehell meets Lady governess
The Last Gamble (Bastards of London #3) by Anabelle Bryant Lucius Reese, we are told is, ' a man of many titles, none of them revered by the peerage: rakehell, philanderer, and bastard most of all.' Luke, one of the partners of the gambling palace, the Underworld, is a man in pain. His son Nate has been kidnapped by his half-brother, Viscount Dursley. Lady Georgina Harwood has fled her family situation and comfortable home in Mayfair to a cottage in Coventry and is currently employed by a local peer as a governess. (Mind you I find the whole cooking episode a bit like Marie Antoinette playing at being a dairymaid) Luke and Georgina meet because Luke discovers that Georgina the governess can prove that Nate was in Dursley's hands. There are lovely moments of whimsy in Luke and Georgina's interactions . Such as Georgina and Luke's individual reflections about each other at the inn. Luke is in room four and Georgina in room three, across th...