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Experience by Sorcha MacMurrough

Experience, A Rakehell Regency Romance novel by Sorcha MacMurrough

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Ravished, Book 12 of The Rakehell Regency Romance Series

Ravished, by Sorcha MacMurrough

Ravished
Book 12 of The Rakehell Regency Romance Series
Sorcha MacMurrough

Rakish Matthew Dane is out on the Town for a bit of adventure and variety.  Visiting a new brothel he has never tried before, he is presented with the most delectable woman he has ever seen, who is tied to the bed and blindfolded.

Thinking it is no more than an erotic game, Matthew and the alluring young woman share the ultimate bliss–until he takes off her blindfold, and discovers he has just made love to his young chaste cousin Althea.

Kidnapped from her home and sold, the orphaned young woman has no recollection of how she got there, and is terrified that whoever grabbed her will try to seize her again. All she knows is that she has always desired Matthew, and fate seems to have presented her with all she could wish for in their heated embraces.

Matthew is torn between his yearnings for Althea, with every touch and look leaving him craving more of her sensual sweetness, and his shock at what he has done. He is even more haunted by what  might have happened if he had not come along in time to save her.

He can only see one solution: marry Althea and give her the protection she needs as his wife. But the accomplished rake is at a loss as to how to deal with the delicately beautiful woman, and has no belief in love, only lust.

Althea has been in love with Matthew for as long as she can remember. Tired of being treated like a victim or empty-headed Society belle, she wages a campaign to put behind her the traumatic ordeal which brought them together.

Althea is willing to fight using every weapon in her arsenal to win Matthew’s love, and stop her husband from seeking solace with the many women who wish to be his mistress.

When another young woman goes missing near her childhood home, Althea must risk all in a depraved and deadly game to save the imprisoned girl. Althea will stop at nothing to uncover the identity of the criminal mastermind who has engineered the ring of debauchery lurking under the pleasant facade of aristocratic society.

The thought of losing Althea is more than Matthew can bear-can he save his beloved before it’s too late?
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Innocence Afire

Innocence Afire
Book 11 of The Rakehell Regency Romance Series
Sorcha MacMurrough

Randall Avenel the Earl of Hazelmere and Isolde Drake have married in haste to save her from scandal, but a happy future together is far from certain as Isolde discovers the shocking truth about Randall’s past.

Secrets which have lain hidden for decades are brought to light at last, bringing with them the most stunning consequences. As Randall seeks redemption for his sins, Isolde’s innocence is set afire by the passionate love they share.

But has Isolde really succeeding in reforming a rake? Or is Randall living a double life despite the torrid desire they share?

Only though trusting each other and the miracle of love they share, can Randall and Isolde vanquish their enemies and the demons of their past….

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Innocence

Innocence

Book 10 of The Rakehell Regency Series

Sorcha MacMurrough

Randall Avenel the Earl of Hazelmere’s plans for a liaison with the talented courtesan known as ‘The Eternal Virgin’ go awry when impoverished heiress Isolde Drake appears on his doorstep to apply for the job of paid companion to his aging mother.

Having refused to support her family by compromising her virtue with Chauncey Howell, to whom Isolde had been engaged before her family lost all their money, Howell decides to take revenge on her by sending Isolde unescorted to the home of the Earl, the most prominent rake of the Ton. The scandal is sure to ruin her, provoke a duel with his enemy Randall, and drive Isolde into his own bed.

Chauncey doesn’t forsee Isolde’s overwhelming desire for Randall, or the fascination the beautiful and spirited young woman begins to exert upon the world-weary rake tormented by his own sins.

Who has seduced whom? Has the jaded young Earl met his match at last? Only by coming to terms with his shadowy past and the crimes he is sure he is guilty of, can Randall ever be free to love again.

Only through learning about the enigmatic woman whom his enemy has bestowed upon him, can Randall face the future, and allow his experience to be tempered by innocence. Only though trusting to love can the vanquish the enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy Randall and his family….

“I am mad, darling Isolde,” he said, taking her hand to kiss it once more. “Mad for you to be my wife, to give yourself to me in every way. And to let me give myself to you the way I’ve never given myself to any woman.”

Randall reached for her waist now, but she suddenly grew fearful of the raving passion that tore through her with his slightest touch.

“This is too much,” she said, cowering away from his questing hands. “Please. Just let me go. I want to go home to Surrey.”

His face fell. “I can’t be responsible for your ruin like this.”

“You aren’t. Howell will be if he bruits it about. But you cannot be given a life sentence for a crime you did not commit.”

“What if I want to be prisoner to your charms, Isolde, without any hope of parole?”

“Please, Randall, this is no laughing matter, and I would not want you condemned to a life of misery.”

“But what if that’s all I deserve?” he said under his breath.

She stared at him now, stunned. “You want to punish yourself by marrying me? What on earth-”

He reached for her with desperate eagerness, desire shining in his lapis blue eyes. “No! No, not at all. I want and need you. I would be lost if you walked out that door now without giving me a chance to redeem myself.”

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The Mad Mistress
A Rakehell Regency Novel
Sorcha MacMurrough
Regency England, 1812

A Desperate Gamble … on Love!

Wealthy heiress Vanessa Hawkesworth is offered as the stake in a card game by her half-brother Gerald in order to cover his gambling debts.

Clifford Stone, their nearest neighbor, only agrees to play for her hand in marriage in order to free her from Gerald’s excesses. Clifford is fascinated by the lovely if unworldly young bluestocking.

As his attraction grows, so too does his certainty that his new-found love is in increasing danger from malevolent forces who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to seize her newly-acquired fortune.

Vanessa must learn to trust a complete stranger with her heart, and her entire life. Stunned at her new fiance’s accusations against Gerald, she is sure she is going mad, torn between loyalty to her family and the wildfire passion that flares every time Clifford touches her.

As new a series of crimes in the district threatens her new-found love and happiness, Vanessa must gamble all herself in order to protect her beloved Clifford, and bring the men responsible to justice before it’s too late.
The Mad Mistress
A Rakehell Regency Novel
Sorcha MacMurrough
Word count-101,000

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The Model Mistress

The Model Mistress

Volume Nine of The Rakehell Regency Series

Sorcha MacMurrough

Forbidden Passion…

Martin Jerome has been a broken man ever since he and his new bride were attacked by highwaymen four years before. Left a widower haunted by his loss, he drifts through life a grim shadow of his former self until a chance meeting with lovely Eswara Paignton opens up a whole new world of possibilities.

Exotically beautiful Eswara, a great healer from India, can sense Martin’s inner turmoil and despair. Though older than the handsome Martin, she soon finds herself falling in love with the wounded spirit tormented by his own inner demons.

Through his befriending of her teenaged son Ash, Martin finds himself seeking out the alluring widow’s company more and more. Both silently ache for the other. Both know the potential consequences of becoming lovers in their rigid society.

But the more they struggle against their attraction, the more certain they become that the explosive passion which drives them is truly a gift from the gods.

The Model Mistress
Volume Nine of The Rakehell Regency Series
Sorcha MacMurrough
Word Count: 132,000
Rating: Extremely Sensual

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The Model Master

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The Model Master

Book Eight of The Rakehell Regency Series

Sorcha MacMurrough

A chance at redemption?

Handsome and fierce warrior Michael Avenel has been to hell and back during the Peninsular War. Now paralysed from the waist down, he is convinced his life is over until a desperate young woman comes to his door seeking help one fateful night.

Beautiful Bryony Wells was forced to endure an abusive marriage at the hands of a depraved husband for the sake of her sons. Now widowed, with her eldest boy set to inherit their father’s property, she grows ever more fearful for the children’s safety at the hands of her evil in-laws.

Fleeing from their family mansion to start a decent new life where they can grow up happy and loved, she stumbles into Michael’s life…and heart.

Working as his secretary, Bryony finds him a model employer, with his mastery soon extending to her body and soul. For as their intimacy increases, she is certain she is falling in love with her enigmatic employer, and that her feelings might actually be returned.

With Bryony working by his side, Michael has a reason to try to recover his health. The beginnings of hope that the woman he has come to love above all else might actually be his for the asking.

But once he has Bryony, he will do anything to keep her, as Bryony’s evil brother in law Derek will stop at nothing to secure the family fortunes as his own.

Can Michael ever be the man Bryony needs him to be? Or will their love become just another casualty of Michael’s dreadful long war he has fought so hard for, and nearly died for?

Can Bryony ever escape the ghosts from her past, and through her love for Michael, help him escape from his own?

The Model Master

Book Eight of The Rakehell Regency Series

Sorcha MacMurrough

Word Count: 85,600 words

Rating: Very Sensual

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The Mistaken Miss

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The Mistaken Miss
Book 7 of The Rakehell Regency Romance Series
Sorcha MacMurrough

The wrong woman!

Philip Marshall’s plans to elope with Johanna Otway go awry when her twin sister Jasmine appears on his doorstep trying to prevent her sibling’s ruination at the hands of London’s most infamous rake.

Far from saving her sister, Jasmine is plunged headlong into disaster, and Philip’s bed. For he does not realize the passionate woman he takes into his embrace is definitely NOT the arctic Johanna until it’s too late.

Philip had fully intended to ruin the Otway family through the seduction of their heiress. He had no idea a nearly identical twin sister even existed. Now he finds himself drawn to Jasmine in the most unexpected ways. Who has seduced whom?

As Philip determines that Jasmine is the one woman in the world who can ever make him truly whole, he decides he does not even care about the Otway family fortune.

Only by coming to terms with his horrendous hidden past, and gaining Jasmine’s trust, can Philip face the future, and win the love of the remarkable woman whom a strange quirk of Fate has bestowed upon him.

Jasmine is a quiet bluestocking who rushes up to London to try to prevent her sister from eloping with the Ton’s most notorious rake.

But the man she meets is completely different from what she ever expected. The magical spark between them produces one unforgettable night of love with far-reaching consequences.

For Jasmine’s father Frederick is nothing if not implacable in his hatred of Philip and his family. He would rather see his own daughter dead than Philip happily in love with her. Frederick sets about ruining both their lives with the deft skill of a cat playing with a mouse.

Johanna too is livid at losing her rich, handsome conquest to her quiet little sister, and is determined to seduce Philip away from Jasmine, the better to help her father ruin him.

Jasmine must trust to love, and uncover the truth about her family and the destruction her father has caused. She is certain that Fate brought them together for a reason, to heal Philip, and grant him true love at long last.

Jasmine transforms thanks to his love, and becomes a fierce tigress to protect the man she adores. She fights tooth and nail for the passionate relationship they have forged through walking through fire together to keep their enemies at bay.

Philip never imagined any woman could ever forgive his dark past, let alone a girl as untouched and innocent as Jasmine. Will his erotic passions be the making of Jasmine, or bring about her ruin?

As she licked her lips nervously, Philip pounced.

She was stunned by the kiss, for the last thing she had ever expected was that the man her sister was getting ready to elope with would actually DARE to presume…

But even more stunning was that rather than filling her with revulsion, Jasmine found her arms creeping around his neck, her lips pressing even more tightly to his own.

His busy hands were already tumbling her thick luxuriant fall of honey-blond hair down over her shoulders, running his fingers through it to loosen the braids so that it flowed freely over her curved back and down across her breasts.

She held her breath as he stroked one tress from the top of her head down past her cheek, neck, shoulder, and finally her bosom.

One hand on her back arched her chest upwards to press tightly to his, and she could feel herself stroking his silk waistcoat, insinuating her fingers into the space between the buttons in an effort to grasp her reeling world and the incredible man who held her in his arms…


The Mistaken Miss
Book 7 of The Rakehell Regency Series
Sorcha MacMurrough
Word Count: 93,800, approx. 350 8.5 x 11″ pages
Rating: Extremely Sensual

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Guardian of the Heart

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Guardian of the Heart
Book Six, The Rakehell Regency Series
Sorcha MacMurrough

The ultimate temptation!

Dr. Blake Sanderson, married to his career and determined to alleviate the plight of the poor, never imagines he will wed or have a family until his friend Peter asks him to become the guardian of his step-sister Arabella.

Blake recalls her as a small child. The lovely raven-haired eighteen-year old he is presented with turns his entire life upside down.

For as all of the most eligible bachelors in London and Somerset pursue Arabella, Blake realizes that he has fallen in love with the one woman society and convention forbid him to have.

Arabella meets handsome Dr. Sanderson at the site of a tragic accident. He is the only man she has ever been interested in. He’s a gentleman after her own heart, dedicated to the poor, and passionate under his rigidly controlled exterior.

When she discovers Blake is to be her guardian, she is devastated. As her friends parade beau after beau in front of her, Arabella becomes certain Blake is the only man she can ever respect, esteem and desire enough to marry.

But how can she convince Blake of this before their enemies move in to tear them apart forever?

Guardian of the Heart
Book Six, The Rakehell Regency Series
Sorcha MacMurrough
Setting: Regency England, 1814
Word count: 116,000
Rating: Quite Sensual

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