Revenge Wears Rubies (Jaded Gentleman)
Galen Hawk survived a hellish imprisonment in India. John Everly did not. Before his friend died, Galen promised John he would tell John’s fiancée, Haley Moreland, how much he loved her and that he always wished for her happiness in life. Once Galen arrives back in England and discovers Haley hasn’t even bothered to mourn her late fiancé and is already engaged to another man, Galen decides a bit of revenge is in order. His plan is to seduce Haley, ruining her socially, and destroying any hope she might have of marrying again. But what Galen had not planned on is falling in love. Bernard expertly leavens her latest exquisitely sensual historical, the first in her new Jaded Gentleman series, with a generous dash of dry wit, while delivering a captivating, complex tale of revenge and romance. --John Charles