![]() ![]() Trying and failing to come up with a new travel plan, she decides she needs a hero. Days into their journey, her maid, Annie, absconded with a local farm boy, and Diantha is wary of the man in the corner of the coach leering at her. ![]() Lady Diantha Lucas is in need of a hero when she spots Wyn Yale asleep in the crowded Mail Coach. But his plans go awry when, shortly after he recovers Lady Priscilla, he finds himself traveling on the Mail Coach with Lady Diantha Lucas, who’s embarked on a life-altering mission of her own. Tasked by the Falcon Club with retrieving and returning Lady Priscilla, a prized horse, to the same evil duke who murdered the girl Wyn was sworn to protect, Wyn vows to kill him and face the consequences. For the past five years he’s sought solace at the bottom of a bottle, but when How a Lady Weds a Rogue opens, Wyn has a new sense of purpose. ![]() Charming, handsome, clever and kind, Wyn is the consummate gentleman he’s only ever failed one of the women in his charge… but the loss has haunted him ever since. The third novel in Katharine Ashe’s Falcon Club series, it features Wyn Yale, aka The Raven, whose specialty is retrieving lost girls. After reading it again this past week, I think I loved it even more. I first read How a Lady Weds a Rogue years ago and I loved it. ![]()
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