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When a rake beyond redemption . . .

A walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope. Deeply in debt and down to his last farthing, he must marry nothing short of an absolute fortune, or risk utter ruin.

Must marry for money . . .

Enter Miss Charlotte Lancaster, unfashionably tall heiress to just such a fortune and a clumsy, redheaded disaster in her five London seasons. While she dreams of leaving England for a life of trade in America, her father schemes to trade her dowry for a title—and Marchioness of Rutherford will do nicely. Charlotte wants her independence, not a husband, and certainly not a disreputable devil who renders her weak and wobbly with a single scorching glance. But she's a practical sort, and a year with the devil might buy her freedom . . . provided she can resist his seductive charms. That shouldn't prove a problem, for he could not possibly want someone like her, and the feeling is mutual. Really. It is.

Love grows in the most unexpected places . . .

When her father demands a startling price for his daughter's hand—one year of fidelity and sobriety—Chatham must change his libertine ways . . . at least temporarily. And when he does, Charlotte begins to see him in a new light—not as the scandalous charmer she married, but as the husband she just might adore.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08Z9JJMJT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tantor and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (March 1, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8200416264
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 5.7 inches

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Reading romance novels came easily to Elisa Braden. Writing them? That took a little longer. After graduating with degrees in creative writing and history, Elisa spent too many years in “real” jobs writing T-shirt copy ... and other people’s resumes ... and articles about giftware displays. But that was before she woke up and started dreaming about the very unreal job of being a romance novelist. Better late than never.

Elisa lives in the Pacific Northwest, where you're constitutionally required to like the colors green and gray. Good thing she does. Other items on the "like" list include cute dogs, strong coffee, and epic movies. Of course, her favorite thing of all is hearing from readers who love her characters as much as she does.

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Cupatee

Wonderful!! Ignore the (minimal) haters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2023

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I have a day job of which I'm quite proud. I'm not a professional reviewer. Nor even a passable amateur reviewer. I.Just.Like.To.Read.HISTORICAL.ROMANCE. And I don't nitpick and think about how I'm going to review a book while I'm reading it. I simply read it.

And this...was absolute pleasure. The internal monologues, the blocking was fantastic. Like watching a movie. I have never called out another review but...it really begs to be done because one review almost stopped me from sampling this book. Thank God for samples - because I was immediately hooked. Charlotte is amazing and *realistic*, as is Ben. He's what I imagine a real rake back in the day was like. (If you read the first book in the series, you'll understand how unflinchingly the author drew him.)

To Karen Talley - I question your veracity. How is your review so high on the list? You clearly skimmed it. The house was made acceptable - not perfect - after two MONTHS, not two days as you erroneously wrote. This love story wasn't ridiculous or unbelievable. It's not based on physical attraction alone. Ben was at a low point in his life. He wasn't the golden and buff hero when they met. He was a shell of his true, sensitive self, a wounded man who turned his life around. Charlotte and Ben fall in love through spending time together, through shared experiences and pursuits. Through personal growth. He met that person who makes you whole, makes you a better person. It happened in my life and I know, many, many others'.

Yes, there is cursing. But humans have been doing this for a while now. Queen Elizabeth I was reported to be an unrepentant lover of oaths.

A lovely representation of the genre. Please read and enjoy.

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4 total overhaul of a rake stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2021

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Benedict Chatham is the recent inheritor of the title Marquess of Rutherford complete with an impoverished estate. He is also a wastrel, philanderer, drunkard, and manwh@re, and he is unapologetic about all of it. In fact, he has found that his impressive skills in the bedroom translate to a way to fund his expensive taste in whiskey habit and his lease at the gaming hell establishment he also regularly frequents. But upon inheriting his new title, he also assumed a significant amount of debt - the likes of which he cannot see how he will dig out from under. All estates and items that are unentailed are being seized, and he has been given his walking papers by the proprietor of the gaming hell. In short, the womanizing boozer is out of options and ripe for the kind of proposition a wealthy American businessman approaches him with.

Charlotte Lancaster is a half English/half American awkward anomaly resignedly preparing for a fifth season per her father's firm instruction that she marry a man with a title. Nothing less than a duke, marquess, or earl will do for him, and those are not only in short supply, but after four years of being soundly rejected by suitors for being too tall, too freckled, too American, too red-headed (terribly unfashionable after all), she has little hope that she will make a match that satisfies her father's requirements. Besides, she doesn't wish to marry and be the wife to a member of the ton - she has too many plans for her own future. She is her father's daughter, and she plans to forge her own business in America - all she needs is for her father to realize that his demands cannot be met and she will be free. When he summons her with an urgent request, she is certain it is to tell her that he has given up... but when he tells her she must wed the man he just made a devil's bargain with, she is stunned and disgusted. The man he wants her to wed is a known degenerate, after all. But the terms do allow an out for Charlotte: if after one year of cohabiting, they would be permitted to live separately. Charlotte recognizes that arguing with her father is futile as he always gets what he wants, and what is a year to have to wait after all compared to the future she has wanted for so l0ng?

Chatham is floored when Charlotte's father lays out his terms: remain sober for 1 year, remain faithful, and live with his daughter, and he will receive 100,000 pounds - a veritable fortune that would set him up for life in whatever way he chooses to live it. If he is able to impregnate his wife within 2 years and provide an heir, he receives 200,000. This is not a deal he can afford to pass up, so he accepts. Besides, Charlotte Lancaster has always intrigued him, so living with her for a year could prove interesting. But the reality proves to be very different from the expectations each of them bring to their "one year term," and neither can credit the reasons they seem to mesh so well. Can Chatham remain faithful and sober long enough to allow them to forge a future together? Will they wish to make it a more permanent arrangement? And, if so, can Charlotte abandon the dreams she has held tightly to for so many years?

What I liked:
--- Charlotte was a pistol - she knew what she wanted and how to get it and didn't apologize for being ambitious
--- Transformation of both characters was fun to watch unfold
--- Realistic struggles for that time period and the characters; the depiction of Chatham's substance abuse and its fallout/consequences was poignant and heartbreaking at times but in a way that felt genuine
--- Amusing h moments where her intellect tries to reconcile putting things into practice
--- Preview into the next book (which made me excited to get my hands on!)
--- STEAMY GOODNESS (oh my!)

What I didn't like as much:
--- It was difficult to like and find Chatham sympathetic - I eventually got there, though
--- Benedict's transformation was a little fast (both his physical and character changes) to be completely realistic
--- I didn't love how critical of herself Charlotte was even after being assured she was desirable
--- Miscommunication angst

Overall, a good rake reformation for the right woman story with some delicious steamy goodness along the way!

Plot --- 4/5
Main Characters --- 4/5
Supporting Cast --- 4/5
Steam Level* --- 4/5
Violence --- none that I can recall
Language --- not egregious
POV --- 3rd

*Note that steam level is not a rating so much as a how hot was it: 0/5 - clean; 1/5 - mild (nothing descriptive); 2/5 - 3rd base action/1 home run; 3/5 - now we're getting somewhere (a couple of full-on steamy scenes); 4/5 - yes please! (erotica territory); 5/5 - they did EVERYTHING in this one, y'all

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Let's wallow in this pile of horse s*** together, shall we?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2016

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An American heiress who is a perfect combination of English and Colonial, in the best ways -- who doesn't want a match to secure her future, teams up with a debauched rogue who is destroying himself with alcohol because his estate is in ruin-- thanks to his father-- and has no future.

Gangly, clumsy and an unfashionable red head with freckles, Miss Charlotte Lancaster is a social outcast and has been since her debut five years prior. She seems the butt of every whispered joke when she enters a room and has an unfortunate nickname following her everywhere. No matter how large her dowry no nobleman wants her for a wife because she's willful, blunt and trips over her own feet -- often. When her father coerces her into marriage with a business deal she can't refuse, her lonely heart comes face to face with its match in an extremely thin, about to keel over Marquess of Rutherford who needs the coin from this arrangement to survive.

The similarities between them are not immediately apparent but due to thoughtful character development and witty exchanges you learn they are both terribly lonely, they are very smart and clever, and they were both raised by idiots. What struck me was how genuine Charlotte is, in her thoughts and deeds, and her genuine compassion for a husband she was saddled with but wants to be partners with for their year-long marriage arrangement. Her smile and go-to attitude is infectious and even her husband can't resist her adorable freckles and lustrous red hair.

The Marquess, Benedict Chatham, is surprisingly kind. Though he did sordid things for whiskey and money, you realize he did it to survive. Just like Charlotte, he's bound by societal rules in that he cannot enter trade, he cannot marry well with his reputation, and he is just waiting, unhappily resigned to his fate. Sure he can be an arrogant punk, but he listens to reason and there is some semblance of honor and pride that is innate in his character that will not permit his wife to starve with him, wants to protect her, and wants to catch her every time she trips.

These characters are mature and they drive the story, which is what I loved best about it. There are some steamy scenes between them for those who are squeamish about that, but it's tasteful. Unlike with his former paramours and trysts you have the distinct feeling that the way he loves her is sincere and personal -- something entirely foreign to him. They're married so that's part of the deal, but it's never forced and it flows rather well because its through their mental, physical and verbal connection that she retrieves the devil from the depths of Hell, brushes off the ashes, and finds her prince.

The Marquess in the end was a bit moronic in how he finally had his epiphany before his HEA, but when you think about how far he's come, and from where he started, you realize he is a better man for it. Charlotte also takes the long way around not realizing until the end that she already had him at "Let's wallow in this pile of horse s*** together, shall we?"

[I had forgotten that the Marquess was involved in the unfortunate wager concerning Lady Jane in book 2, I may have liked him less if I had, but I believe these books can be read independently, and out of order]

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C. Constable

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 4, 2021

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This book is a masterclass in character and H/h relationship development. The hero, Benedict Chatham was a recurring character in previous books and is a rake and wastrel of the first order. Although there were glimpses of hope and vulnerability in him in previous books, I still had doubts of how he would be redeemed in this book. Well, I need not have worried myself after this because Ms. Braden has surely redeemed him and more- she made us fall for him! He married the heroine, Charlotte, basically for money. He was a broken man, both by circumstances of his birth and by his own doing. I said a masterclass of character development because Benedict transformed into a much better man throughout the entire book deserving of a HEA. He had earned it with Charlotte so very well. I need not stress here how I love and enjoy reading about Charlotte. She is a prime example of a strong, no nonsense heroine, although it broke my heart how she thought of herself as undeserving of love and she fought loneliness since childhood.

It is a masterclass in the relationship development as well as Ben and Charlotte's relationship grew organically, from initial dislike, to friendship, to lust then to love. I love how they have grown to respect and liked each other first before falling into love. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. This one will go in my keeper shelf.

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Boring, ridiculous, and just simply bad

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 22, 2021

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I mostly enjoyed the previous books I've rwad by this author, including book 5 in this series, which is my favourite with James Kilbrenner, but this was terrible. Its the worst of the series. The entire thing is boring and the romance and character's are too similar to the other books. The biggest problem was the cliched in many MC books 'supposedly strong heroine made mindless by lust' plot.

It was all so incredibly stupid, unappealing and unbelievable. I love many genres of books, including these historical reads and MC (motorcycle) books but hate that plotline and its become rife in MC books. The author turns her heroine from a strong, independent, intelligent woman, who knows her own mind, who is determined to live her own life how she wants, without a man, who for the past five years has managed to store away savings, despite her father's restrictions, into a simpering, made mindless by lust, idiot, who, for no reason at all, falls in instant lust for the alcoholic, man-whore of a hero who treats her like crap, constantly.

Literally there was no reason, zero, zip, nada, none, given by the author for the heroine, or the reader, to even want to be in the same room with this horrible man, who, and I quote from the book, 'is so thin and ill looking that he appears like a grey corpse, smelling of vomit, stale sweat and sickness, while shivering from his alcoholic withdrawal'. But she feels arousal for him in this state? Cuz that sounds like a man to induce lust. Not!

He continues to treat and speak to her in the most degrading and nasty ways. He is a waster, the very quality the heroine states at the beginning of the book that she hates in men, or anyone. Yet she continues to lust after him, even when he leaves her to do all the hard work and labour to fix up the massive, dilapidated country home that is his ancestors? Again, no, not believable.

Which FYI, throws up two more massively unbelievable plot problems. One, that apparently it has fallen to pieces in just a few years, because although he left 20 years prior, his father still lived in it for more years after. But the place literally crumbled, even the massive, think handmade and handcrafted, wooden carved staircase with its thick ballastrades fell apart during those short years? Really?

And two, apparently the heroine and her maid managed to fix up most of the rooms in this palacial sized country Manor home in just two days, and also fix up the gardens, raking, weeding etc. Again, really?

There is nothing believable about any of that. But the more importantly there was nothing enjoyable about any of this story characters, romance.

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I'm joining the Braden Brigade

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 6, 2019

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This fourth book in the series is the most delicious so far for me. I thought the characters were the most rounded. Benedict who is a malicious presence in the previous books didn't strike me as a character I would love nor was I sure about Charlotte whose gawkiness doesn't bother her in the least bit and makes her thoroughly lovable. She is a character that appears comfortable in her skin which is the perfect foil for a self hating character like Benedict (who is referred to throughout by the awful name of Chatham a bit like calling a guy Sheldon :-)). Without giving to much away this series has been brilliant and sure there is a formula to the stories but Ms Braden does such a wonderful job of making you interested in each couple and making them distinct. Yet it's lovely when characters interact from the previous books as you get to learn more about their lives post novel. Also the best character bar none is Does her WALLINGHAM

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Fiona Murphy

A marquess I love!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 29, 2016

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Having read Elisa Braden's first three books in her Rescued from Ruin series, I was eagerly looking forward to The Devil is A Marquess, counting down the days until the book was released. And I was not disappointed. It was another glorious read.
Having been introduced to our new hero Benedict Chatham in earlier books, I wondered how his story would develop and what kind of lady could lead him towards love and redemption. For Chatham needed redemption. A dissolute rake, drinker and gambler for sure, we glimpsed something of him in earlier books.
The plots of many regency romance books have a young woman who need rescuing from ruin. What I like about Elisa's series is that it is her leading men who require this and she has given each of her heroes different kinds of rescue. With The Devil is a Marquess I like the message that people with addictions and those who may have made poor choices in life can find their way back to a healthy and productive life with the support of loved ones. In Chatham's case a lack of love caused his turbulent lifestyle and learning to truly love himself and another person for the first time in his life brings about his rescue. An emotional book. I fell in love with Chatham and found myself willing him to be happy as he gradually found the strength to change for the better. Charlotte, the lovely lady who has no real choice initially in having to deal with Chatham, is a brilliant example of what can be achieved when a good woman helps her man. Both Charlotte and Chatham come to our story with not entirely dissimilar family issues from their childhoods ,but how they together, with no initial knowledge of each other, manage to create their own loving family unit is a heartwarming read.
Now, not until summer for Elisa's next story - I can't wait!

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Interesting main characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 19, 2020

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Benjamin Chatham spends his life in Fri long deeply, ferreting out and selling secrets, plus sleeping with women for money. He has no honour. When his father dies, he inherits the title and the huge, huge debts owed by him. He is offered a deal by a rich American.
Charlotte Lancaster is on her fifth season and has endured total humiliation. Being taller than average, freckled and half American is no incentive to being wooed, even when your father is filthy rich. Her dream is to go to America, a place she left at the age of five.Could her absentee father demand her to marry a more pathetic, horrible excuse of manhood?

I cannot understand how I ?liked Chatam's character, but I did.Charlotte was lovely, spoke her mind, quick to forgive. It is obvious the author has not been to Northumberland. Flat countryside? Indeed no, it is one of the most spectacular counties in England and has no River Fenn. Research is necessary.

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