A Rakes on the Run Christmas Novella
Mistletoe and Missing Jewels — A wealthy widow and a sexy sleuth play a game of cat and mouse!
It’s Christmas in 1814, and the Prince Regent is enjoying a London filled with dignitaries. Meanwhile, at a Twelvetide party in Great Oakley, mischief is afoot. Grandfather clocks are stopping, stolen jewelry is reappearing, and one intrepid lady is falling in love with the one man who thinks her utterly unsuitable—believing her to be a contemptible thief. Enjoy the story of Lady Sarah Worthington (sister to Miss Julia Sudbury from Last Dance in London) and Lord Miles Denbigh. (Warning: A steamy Christmas tale!)
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(First published in the anthology Have Yourself A Merry Little Secret, Oct. 2020.)
Mia Burke Five Stars on Goodreads
This is a charming and fun story with wonderful characters, witty conversations, sizzling hot chemistry, lots of funny hijinks and a wonderful plot! Such sweet suspense.Thank you so much Ms. Baily for this fun and sensuous holiday tale.
Lori D Five Stars on Goodreads
I adored Sarah and Miles. The attraction sizzled and with a game of cat and mouse, it was simply delightful! I also have to say that Sydney threw in so many new words and names of games that it was so much fun to look them up! Brilliant!
Elodie’s Reading Corner Five Stars on Goodreads
So far I have only read clean stories by the author, so it was a pleasure to read one with a more sensual side than her usual’s.
Her heroes have both an agenda, and while they can’t stop brushing one another’s with purposeful hands and bantering wits and having not-fit-for-a-tearoom thoughts, they try but fail to stay out of sight of the other.
Hence the game of cat and mouse.
Sarah is an outsider, married to a very elderly earl who found very afterward their wedding his rest with the Lord. Thus her having not been well accepted by those born in the nobility. And now she is there to right some wrongs done, she is distracted by the sole man who made her inner core flicker.
Miles is there for a sole and quite easy mission if only his main subject was not the woman who ignites his inside. One who is everything he would want but fear he can’t have if she is whom he believes she is.
A delightful and sensuous tale of second chance. 5 stars
Lana Birky Five Stars on Goodreads
This is a fun game of chase & accusations to find out “Whodunit” – you will love this couple!!!
Debbie Brown Five Stars on Goodreads
I love this crazy twisted whodunit mystery at the house party.