title: The Rake and The Recluse
author: LeBlanc, Jenn
description: Denver, Colorado, yesterday.
  Francine Larrabee, a highly respected business woman, is getting ready for a presentation that will change her life when she's in a car accident in the back of a taxi. Suddenly she's a woman with no name and no home in Northern England, near the Scottish border, the year of Our Lord... 1880.
  
  Francine is catapulted into a world that threatens her life, controlled by a man who may destroy her heart. Isolated from the world she grew up in, without so much as a glimmer of the world she knows she must survive amid the sudden danger, violence, and passion.
  
  Francine learns her only chance of safety lies in Gideon Trumbull, a lionhearted--but evasive--duke. What begins as a compulsion to learn anything about him becomes an urgent need, and Francine finds herself in an inescapable new reality, a world in which she doesn't belong.
  
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  Meanwhile... Gideon's brother Perry has likewise been caught up in an incident, finding a runaway housemaid in his carriage as he's bound for London. His brother is going to kill him if something happens to one of his staff. That something being his rakish brother Perry, of course.
  
  But his stowaway, Lilly, has another idea. She plans on seducing a rake who refuses to touch her. It seems like just the right challenge to sooth her damaged soul.