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Some matrons watch the debutantes. This one watches the rakes.

A chaperone's first duty at a ton ball is to keep scoundrels off the maidens. Lady Taillere has decided to take them herself.

Ten years married, ten years untouched. Her husband locked the connecting door after their wedding night and never came back. She's thirty-eight, hot and restless, when London's most notorious blade pulls her into the hedgerow and offers a trade: divert his rakish attentions and the debutantes go unbothe...
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Some matrons watch the debutantes. This one watches the rakes.

A chaperone's first duty at a ton ball is to keep scoundrels off the maidens. Lady Taillere has decided to take them herself.

Ten years married, ten years untouched. Her husband locked the connecting door after their wedding night and never came back. She's thirty-eight, hot and restless, when London's most notorious blade pulls her into the hedgerow and offers a trade: divert his rakish attentions and the debutantes go unbothered.

By the second ball he has a friend in the music room — and the candles are deliberately lit, so they can take turns filling her dance card. At the third, three bucks in the stables — all named George, in honor of His Majesty. Ready to make her a mother at last.

And then a fourth George walks in.

Her husband. Finally come to claim his wife.

Taking the Rakes is the 10,000-word second story in the Matrons I’d Like to Tup series about neglected Regency wives discovering all the pleasure the ton has to offer. These scorching short stories take place in a series, but they can be read and enjoyed in any order.
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