The Perfect Rake
Subtitle: Merridew Sisters - 1
Series: Merridew Sisters - 1
Publisher: The Berkley Publishing Group
Published: July 5, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780425203958
First sentence: "PRUE! PRUE! COME QUICKLY.
Description: She ran from a brute...
Fleeing violent tyranny, Prudence Merridew escapes with her beautiful younger sisters to London. One of them must marry--and fast. To act as her sisters' chaperone, Prudence invents a secret engagement to a reclusive duke... But when the duke arrives unexpectedly in London, she needs his help to avert disaster.

...into the arms of a rake
Aristocratic Gideon, handsome, rakish and with a strong frivolous streak, casually hijacks Prudence's game, awarding himself a stolen kiss or three along the way. Used to managing sisters and elderly men, Prudence is completely out of her depth with a charming, devious and utterly irresistible rake. And her plot goes terribly--if deliciously--awry...