Download or read book Once A Rake written by Rona Sharon and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irresistible Seduction Only Leads To. . . War had scarred the Earl of Ashby's face...and perhaps his soul. Before being wounded in the Napoleonic war and shunning society, the dashing lord had been a notorious rake. Now, Isabel Aubrey, a proper lady, dares to approach the masked, reclusive nobleman for a large donation to a worthy charity--and decides she must save him from his self-loathing. She begins to flirt. He responds. She invites him to a masquerade ball. He accepts and dazzles her with a kiss. The Most Scandalous Passion. . . But Isabel already has a fiancé and despite her attraction to the earl she knows she must reject him. Yet no force on earth is greater than the passion that leads her into his bed; nothing she has ever experienced is more exciting and erotic. Now he asks her to stay with him although it will mean her ruin. Isabel must not say yes--and the smitten earl cannot let her say no. To win her body and her heart, he initiates an outrageous scheme that only a rake would devise--and no woman can resist. Praise for Rona Sharon and My Wicked Pirate "A rich, sweeping, passionate read." --New York Times bestselling author Rosemary Rogers "My Wicked Pirate is wickedly fun." --Booklist "A passionate debut. . .the action never stops." --Romantic Times