num_pages: 375
description: Lady Sophronia Sorrow considers herself an unlikely heroine. Why just her name alone proves this. Sophronia Sorrow sounds like a girl from a gothic penny novelthe foolish miss who falls prey to a rake and becomes an object lesson for the true heroine to avoid. No despite her mawkish name Sophie refuses to spend her life invisible and unwanted relegated to the margin of the text. Despite her eccentric bluestocking ways there must be a place where she is wanted. If only she could uncover the identity of her natural father perhaps she would belong there? But one thing Sophie knows for sureunlike that foolhardy miss in a novel she will not succumb to a rake. No matter how thoroughly the rakish Lord Rafe Gilbert may tempt her. Lord Rafe Gilbert longs for freedomfreedom from his controlling father freedom to live his life as he chooses. He knows playing the rake keeps his autocratic father in check but Rafe longs to determine his own destiny. Case in point he fell in love with Lady Sophie years ago but his fathers threats and his mothers health prevent him from pursuing Lady Sophie in earnest. So when Fate thrusts Sophie into his path Rafe knows he must turn her away and distance himself. But doing the right thing has never been so impossibly difficult. Sophie and Rafe soon find themselves on a journey together from London to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Along the way can two kindred souls heal from past hurts and seize a second chance to write a love story of their own?
language: None
title: Romancing the Rake
publisher: Fiorenza Publishing