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Beauty & the Rake
by Erica Monroe
Rookery Rogues Book Three

Once she was beautiful…
Abigail Vautille grew up in the heart of the London rookeries, toiling as a factory worker until one tragic night leaves her disfigured and unable to weave. Faced with starvation or prostitution, she strikes a deal with the rogue who owns her father’s gambling debts—if he excuses the debt, for two weeks, she’ll give him her body, but not her heart.

Once he was charming…
Inspector Michael Strickland of the Metropolitan Police has always had a way with women. Success comes easily to him, and he glides through life on his good looks and family name. But Abigail lights a passion within him he never knew existed. As he gets to know her, he realizes two weeks with her won’t be enough. He sees the beauty within her, not the beast she believes herself to be.

Together, their love is beyond a fairy tale…
Yet Abigail’s scars run more than skin deep. With the end of their agreement so close, can Michael convince Abigail she’s exactly who he wants?

Genre: Historical Romantic Suspense
Content/Theme(s): Regency, Detective, Mystery, Beauty and the Beast
Release Date: April 21, 2015 Special 99¢ Pre-order price
Publisher: Quillfire Publishing

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Red was everywhere.

Abigail Vautille shouldn’t have been surprised. Since that fateful day when her left hand was forcibly rammed into the back part of a loom, red had haunted her. Her permanently scarred skin crisscrossed with angry red lines. Her hand had never healed properly, and still her thumb stuck out at sickening angle. Bubbles of flesh remained, torn back to expose her knucklebones. Red was there too. And red was even the hair color of her once-friend, Poppy Knight, whose investigation into their past employer led to Abigail’s torture.

Still, her stomach clenched at the sight of shellacked red door of Cruikshank’s gaming hell. A battered wreath hung in the center, the once-red holly now shriveled and dead. No one bothered to use the black doorknocker. This was no longer a place that required a doorman.

Scoundrels came and went, invited by the new proprietor, Arthur Cruikshank. Prostitutes roamed the halls freely, as long as they gave Cruikshank a cut in their flesh money for the night. Opium addicts, both male and female, lounged in the back room on the second floor.

Abigail was neither an opium addict nor a prostitute, yet she’d been to this gaming hell countless times. She knew the men here, their tells and their compulsions. Each battled a demon that only a hand of cards seemed to sate.

Pushing open the door and entering, she refused to give her cloak to the man who waited by the door. Cruikshank didn’t employ him—when unsuspecting people presented him with their garments, he ran off to resell them in the rag and bone shops. It was a clever trick; one Abigail ought to practice, if it didn’t leave an awful taste in her mouth. Soon, she’d be unable to maintain such scruples. She couldn’t weave any longer, and with her damaged hand she couldn’t perform manual labor.

When she’d been able to hold down a factory job, she’d at least been able to keep the majority of her salary from her father. Now, the money she’d saved was gone to food, rent, and paying his debts.

Her eyes narrowed as she surveyed the crowd mingling in the lower rooms. Conversations drifted in and out, an indiscernible hum. At the end of the red hall, there was a door. One lonely door led to the basement Cruikshank had converted into a brothel.

She didn’t open that door, not today.
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Secrets in Scarlet
by Erica Monroe
Rookery Rogues Book Two
Content/Theme(s): Romantic Suspense,
Regency, Historical

His business is discovering secrets...
When a girl is murdered at a factory in London, Sergeant Thaddeus Knight of the Metropolitan Police comes in to investigate. But it's not just the factory owners that Thaddeus wants information on-the devilishly intriguing Poppy O'Reilly is a puzzle he'd like nothing more than to solve.

Her life depends on keeping her past hidden...
All it took was one mistake for Poppy to lose her good reputation. Shunned by polite society, she's retreated to the one place no one from her old life would look for her: the rookeries. Protecting her young daughter is the most important thing to Poppy, and Thaddeus threatens the false identity she's carefully constructed. The last thing she should do is allow Thaddeus close to her family, yet she can't stay away from him.

With danger around the corner, will the secrets of a scarlet woman lead to their undoing?

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A Dangerous Invitation
by Erica Monroe
Rookery Rogues Book One
Content/Theme(s): Romantic Suspense,
Regency, Historical

She’s given up on love, and wants only independence…
Torn from her life of privilege by her father’s death, Kate Morgan survives in London’s dark and depraved rookeries as a fence for stolen goods. The last man she ever expects, or wants, to be reunited with is her first love, who promised to cherish, honor and protect her, and instead fled amidst accusations of murder.

He’s the reformed rake determined to win her back…
One drunken night cost Daniel O’Reilly the woman he loved and the life he’d worked so hard to create. If he ever wants to reclaim that life–and Kate–he’ll not only have to prove he’s innocent of murder, but convince the pistol-wielding spitfire that he’s no longer the scoundrel he once was.

Together, they’ll have to face a killer. Time is running out…

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A Wayward Man
by Erica Monroe
Rookery Rogues Book 0.5/Prequel
Content/Theme(s): Romantic Suspense,
Regency, Historical

Daniel O’Reilly has everything: the job of a lifetime and the love of the only woman he’s ever wanted. But the siren’s lure of gin calls to him, and Daniel can’t shake it. With each passing day, his life spins more out of control, until one night he’s wrongfully arrested for a murder he didn’t commit.

Shipping magnate’s daughter Kate Morgan knows her betrothed has flaws, but she’s determined to stick by him. Resourceful and smart, Kate believes that she can conquer their problems with force of will alone. But even she can’t stop Daniel from leaving, when the only other option is execution at Newgate Prison…

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