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The Rake

By: L.J. Shen
Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden
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Boston’s most infamous femme fatale meets her match in a dangerously mild Englishman who has vowed to never marry in this romantic stand-alone from Washington Post best-selling author L.J. Shen 

Emmabelle Penrose has cruised through life never needing a man, a plan that has worked stunningly well until about five minutes ago, when she decided she must have a baby. 

Devon Whitehall is 6’2” of premium DNA, financial security, and British royal titles. Best of all, he fears the one thing she dreads the most: getting hitched. 

Emmabelle figures it’s a no-brainer when Devon offers his services - sperm and involvement in her future child’s life. 

What begins as an innocent modern-family arrangement quickly erodes into a web of lies, dark pasts, and unfurled secrets. 

Inside this chaos, Emmabelle and Devon are forced to face the awful truth - they are capable of love. 

Even worse, they might feel it toward each other.  

©2022 L.J. Shen (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

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Wow

Loved this story in the last of this series. My heart broke for the main female character. Her past had made her the way she was, and tried so hard to break out of it. So glad that the male character finally looked beyond the surface of her and fought for them both.
Narration was awesome too.

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Hated it!

Hated Emmabelle even before I begun this book, she’s not only prickly she IS the thorn, what a horrible personality. She had no redeeming qualities in my estimation even after we learned about her abuse. She never held my interest in the other books and I hoped this last book was not her story, sadly it was!
Devon is Paddington Bear on steroids, if I hear him say shite or arse once more in his British accent I’ll scream. I just couldn’t get these two, but kept going to the end.

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