The Reformed Rake of Moorfield: A Historical Romance
By Emily Barnet
"They have called me a rake for years, and I earned every word. Marry me anyway. Not for love. To keep them from taking the child."
Jane Prescott has built her whole life upon being nobody. A governess with no family and no fortune, she comes to Moorfield Manor expecting only quiet work and a silent, grieving little girl no one has been able to reach.
Charlotte has not spoken since the day she was orphaned. And Jane understands at once that a child does not go silent from stubbornness. Gri...
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"They have called me a rake for years, and I earned every word. Marry me anyway. Not for love. To keep them from taking the child."
Jane Prescott has built her whole life upon being nobody. A governess with no family and no fortune, she comes to Moorfield Manor expecting only quiet work and a silent, grieving little girl no one has been able to reach.
Charlotte has not spoken since the day she was orphaned. And Jane understands at once that a child does not go silent from stubbornness. Grief that size locks the one door it still can, and it opens only for someone who can be trusted not to come charging through.
Robert Moorfield is the last man in England anyone would trust. The county calls him the Wastrel Viscount, and he has never troubled to correct them, because a reputation is armour. But behind the careless charm is a man quietly breaking under a guardianship he never wanted, and a cousin circling the estate with lawyers and a story a judge will believe.
Edmund does not need to prove Robert unfit. He needs only a rake, a hired governess no one knows, and one whispered scandal, and the court will hand him Charlotte and her fortune both.
There is one way to end the story before it is sworn. A wedding, in the Gazette, before quarter-day. A settled, married man of rank has no rake in him for a judge to condemn.
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