Lila, Lady Lillian-Anne Lennox, comes to in a cellar with her hands tied. She had left a ball early when her carriage is attacked and she is kidnapped; it's not random, her abductors know who she is. She manages to free her hands, and tries to escape and thus doing, she witnesses a murder, and one of the villains sees her. She is eventually rescued by a man she once spurned. Lila's father, the Duke of Lennox asked for the best, and he got the best: Sir Brook Derring, Investigator. This decision does not go over well with either Brook or Lila.

Shana Galen captured my attention literally from the very first sentence of I KISSED A ROGUE: I could easily imagine the cold and malodorous cellar, Lila's fear and disgust; the author's descriptions have never been more vivid. To say the least, not everybody likes Lila, in fact, almost no one likes Lila; she has made many enemies over the years: she was spoiled, selfish, and at times nearly as snotty as her father. And yet, the way Ms. Galen portrays her, I didn't hate Lila; her behaviour, although reprehensible, is understandable because of the difference in the classes at the time, which the Duke minded to the extreme.

I KISSED A ROGUE might be my favourite instalment in this brilliant Covent Garden Cubs series. I love Brooke: he's your everyman, and even though he is the second son of an Earl, he works. The author delves even more deeply into Regency society than in the previous books, and the class differences are glaring. I also love the way characters from the previous books appear in this book, and how the author has not changed their essence. The romance between Brooke and Lila is not an easy one, and that appealed to me tremendously, because I thought their road to romance was even more captivating and realistic. And Shana Galen being who she is, it will surprise no one that I KISSED A ROGUE has plot twists and a few stunners every few chapters, and apart from a most welcome romantic lull in the middle, the beginning and the end are filled with action and excitement, and the pace is dizzyingly good. I KISSED A ROGUE is a smashing read!

Book Summary

Once she spurned the man...
When the Duke of Lennox hires Sir Brook Derring, England's best investigator, to find his daughter, Brook intends only to rescue the lady and return to his solitary life. He deals with London's roughest criminals every day of the week; surely he should be able to endure seeing his first love again-the perfect girl who broke his heart...

Now her life depends on him
Lady Lillian-Anne Lennox has always done her best to live up to her father's standards of perfection- at the cost of following her heart. When she's kidnapped and her perfect life is shattered, Lila has another chance. Together, Lila and Brook navigate not only the dark and deadly side of London, but the chasm of pride and prejudice that divides them.

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