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A Match for the Rebellious Earl: A Regency Historical Romance (The Return of the Rogues) Kindle Edition

by Lara Temple (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
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Coming soon! A Match for the Rebellious Earl by Lara Temple will be available Feb 01, 2021. Dashing and disreputable...
Now, he's back in Society's ballrooms!
Whispers of Captain Kit Carrington - now Lord Westford - have long scandalised the ton...so his arrival at the season's most-anticipated ball sends society's gossips into a frenzy! Miss Genevieve Maitland needs his help to find an eligible match for her sister but assumes he'll be reluctant to help the family that rejected him. Yet after one spine tingling waltz with Kit, sensible Genny finds he's not her opponent - but a very tempting ally...!
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Harlequin historical romance period sweeping bodice regency victorian scottish viking past history

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"Fantastic, addictive and satisfyingly Passionate, this was all I needed and more. Such wonderful characters." - Maggie Whitworth, , Amazon Review."All in all, this is a gorgeous book: a social commentary with depth, a witty, romantic and sexy love story with wonderfully vivid characters. I just loved it." - Jill Currie, Amazon Review
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"Another winner from Lara Temple. Kit and Genny were excellently matched, with entertaining banter and sizzling tension. Sweet moments, funny moments, and Temple's usual stellar prose made this a heartwarming, page-turning read." - Catherine Stein, Amazon Review

About the Author

Lara Temple writes strong and sensual Regency romances about complex individuals who give no quarter but do so with plenty of passion. She lives with her husband, two children, and one very fluffy dog and they are all very understanding about her taking over the kitchen table so she can look out over the garden as she writes and dreams up her Happy Ever Afters.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08CSQPCGW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harlequin Historical (February 1, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1984 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 69 ratings

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Lara Temple is an award winning author of sensual and emotional historical romance. She lives with her husband, two children, and one very fluffy dog, and they are all very understanding about her taking over the kitchen table so she can look out over the garden as dreams up her Happy Ever Afters.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Élodie Nicoli
5.0 out of 5 stars Finding one’s home
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021
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Will her schemes bring her freedom or doom her future ...

How life was unfair for a too clever woman, Genevieve has to find a way to maneuver people around her if she wants to keep a bit of control over her life. While had she been born a male, she could have commandeered at will without anyone standing against her order. When as a poor relation, she must live from others charity, quite demeaning when she has all the weapons to lead people but lack the Y chromosome.
Kit long ago understood he would never be accepted by his haughty relatives, always viewing in him his baseborn mother and grandfather. The taint of his blood preventing them to love a little boy lost in this chess game about those believing themselves better players. So when he left definitely it was without even a backward glance. And each time he crosses path with them they give as much as they receive. Yet as he is temporarily on the English soil, he makes do.
Kit met Genevieve many years ago when he was a naval officer under her grandfather’s command. And even as a young miss, he had been impressed by her tactical intelligence and her clever managing. Now than nearly a decade has passed, she is still this too smart woman, and worse, she has an agenda.

Their witty exchanges are the high of the story, it is a battlefield with two strategists as they gauge and weigh the other, assessing the best path to strike and if cornered looking for the right retreat road.
What began as a battle of wits, turns soon in a seduction dance with many rehearsals as they fight their own attraction, afraid to change the course of their life or to put their faith in the hands of an other being. These two individual beings have fought lonely for so long, they do not know now how to rely on another’s shoulder. They struggle to share their burden. Until they will have to make a final choice.
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𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 onscreen sweet lovemaking scene.
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4.0 out of 5 stars It must be love. He rescues a bee for her.
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2021
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I confess to resenting the price of Harlequin romances. Yes, it's less than the usual price for an HR by better known authors such as Lisa Kleypas, Eloisa James, or Mary Balogh, for example, but, for me, buying a Harlequin HR is rather like sticking my hand into a grab bag and not knowing what I'll pull out. In addition, I often wait for bargain prices to buy romances and Harlequins are seldom offered at a reduced cost.

That's why I'm happy whenever Lara Temple or Virginia Heath have new Harlequin releases. I know my hand is going to pull out a decently written and very possibly really good romance from that grab bag. This one by Temple is the second in her series The Return of the Rogues, after THE RETURN OF THE DISAPPEARING DUKE. The hero of this second book was a secondary character in the first, as a sea captain who brought the hero and heroine of the first book back to England from Egypt on his ship.

Well, now he's back himself, mainly to attend the wedding of his half sister Emily. This sea captain, Kit Carrington, now the Earl of Westford after the death of his cousin Charles, the previous earl, is not one for enjoying London and society. He prefers his free and adventurous life on the seas. And the fact that London snobs look down on him for his mother's non-peerage lineage doesn't help the situation at all.

But he's back for the wedding, since he loves his stepmother and half sister, but he fully intends to be off again afterwards. One more thing that makes staying in England unappealing is his grandmother, the Dowager Countess of Westford. She's a snobby control freak and all-round unpleasant piece of work.

That brings us to our heroine, Genevieve Maitland. She's living in the Carrington household because her sister Serena, the widow of Charles Carrington, the former Earl of Westford, is there. Serena, like hero Kit's stepmother, is a sweet, nonconfrontational sort and Genny feels the need to be there to protect them both from that very unpleasant, unkind dowager countess.

Genny and Serena, BTW, are granddaughters of the late General Maitland and spent some time when younger following the drum with him in Spain. There they made the acquaintance of hero Kit, since he was one of General Maitland's subordinates. So they meet again in England after many years, and the meeting is more sparks and sandpaper than violins and flowers. Genny is a bit of a managing female and Kit has no interest in being managed.

And now that's almost all I'll say. The plot is not very complex so you should go into it not knowing much more than I've already said. What the plot lacks in complexity, however, it makes up for in having good writing, excellent dialogue, great characters, and a very lovely romance. Although Genny is a managing female, she only manages for the well being of others, not for herself, and Kit learns early on to appreciate her. And when he saves a bee for her, Genny knows it's true love.
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Ann Elliot
4.0 out of 5 stars And There is a Canary Named Carmine Singing Off-Key in the Background
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2021
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Imagine a family reunion of overbearing, devious relatives. Then add the new earl and head of the family, Kit Carrington, forced to come home from a seafaring life he loves to attend the wedding of a much-loved half-sister.

Kit must contend with an irascible, soul-crushing bully of a grandmother (and her obnoxious canary); two snarky male cousins eager to trip him up; and four females financially dependent on the grandmother and forced to suffer constant tirades.

Genny is one of those dependents. She is unrelated to Kit and the one woman with a brain and a spine. She tries to soften the grandmother's sting and to manipulate those around her (but in a good way).

After misreading each other's character completely, Kit and Genny have a tenuous, lovely courtship, and eventually find an HEA.

The writing is good, the characters are interesting, and Kit is way before his time in his support for women.

The family in the book is named Carrington. Does that ring a bell? Remember the complex, often conniving and treacherous Carrington family of the tv show "Dynasty"? Coincidence? I wonder.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2021
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Another winner from Lara Temple. Kit and Genny were excellently matched, with entertaining banter and sizzling tension. Sweet moments, funny moments, and Temple's usual stellar prose made this a heartwarming, page-turning read.
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Cathie Dunn
5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting Regency romance. Highly recommended.
Reviewed in France on February 18, 2021
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I came across the character of Kit Carrington in a previous novel I reviewed, The Return of the Disappearing Duke, and I was thrilled to hear he featured in a novel of his own. And he did not disappoint (not that I expected him to)...

In A Match for the Rebellious Earl, we come across Captain Kit Carrington, now Lord Westford, an earl, on the death of his grandfather. A man who loves the freedom of the sea – and prefers to steer clear from his domineering, widowed grandmother – he is in no hurry to return home and take up the reins of his estate. When he's urged by his cousin Julian, a carefree rogue he never got on with since his childhood, to attend a family wedding, he resigns himself to spend as little time onshore as needed.

But when he meets Miss Genevieve Maitland again after eight years, he meets his match indeed, for Genny is feisty, determined, and bossy. When she enlists his help to find a suitable match for his widowed step-mother and Genny's sister Serena, little does he know where the path will lead him.

"’Right now I'm contemplating your chest,’ she blurted out."
A Match for the Rebellious Earl is a wonderful romance that holds you in a strong grip (pun intended) throughout. The two main characters, Kit and Genny, are complex beings; each with a strong sense of personal space and independence. Kit is highly respected by his men, with his strong sense of honour and loyalty. Genny has a caring nature that not only restricted to her sister, but also to an assortment of animals. She runs the Carrington home under the watchful eye – and sharp tongue – of Kit's grandmother, but in doing so, she ignores herself, and her own dreams and desires. Until Kit shows up...

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. As the setting moves from London to Dorset, the restrictions set by the Ton fall away, and finally both Kit and Genny discover emotions they'd kept hidden before. The development of the characters is one of the strong points of this story. Their well-hidden fears and insecurities come to the fore in the final chapters where a teasing ’will they-won't they’ situation rises from the choppy waters of the sea.

As Genny discovers her daring self she'd kept locked away for years, Kit realises that life onshore has its enticing rewards.

I'm hooked on Lara Temple's new Return of the Rogues series, and I'm already looking forward to the next. Having kept a close eye on various characters in A Match for the Rebellious Earl, I'm now wondering who is next on her list of lonely hearts to find love.

A riveting, fast-paced Regency romance. Highly recommended.
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Jill
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fabulous Romance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2021
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This is a wonderful story. I thoroughly enjoyed it and know that I will read it again and again. It concerns the love story of two exquisitely drawn characters who leap off the page fully formed and stay in the mind long after the book has ended.

Genevieve Maitland is a woman out of her time. She is intelligent, intellectual and has all the skills of a born leader. However, these attributes were not required of a woman in Regency England. As the sister of a widowed Countess, she is living as a companion to the Countess's mother in law, and one the charity of the new Earl, Kit Carrington, who up until this moment has preferred sailing the seven seas to claiming his heritage. She knew Kit some years previously when he was one of the more respected captains serving under her grandfather. General Maitland, in the Spanish wars. Genevieve is disappointed and annoyed that Kit seems to be shirking his responsibilities to his family and his widowed step-mother in particular.

Kit Carrington has returned to England to support his young stepsister at her wedding and is keen to get back to his ship, "The Hesperus" and return to his life of trade and adventure. He finds Genevieve efficiently managing his grandmother's household, pulling strings and working hard to find prospective husbands for her sister and for Kit's stepmother. He is somewhat affronted! However, he finds himself, reluctantly, physically attracted to Genevieve.

What follows their first meeting is an exhilarating, witty and and entrancing courtship dance that reminded me a little of Beatrice and Benedict and Petruchio and Katarina. The verbal sparring, the advance and retreat, the misunderstanding and reconciliations all come together in a glorious whole that makes my heart sing.

I loved watching Kit as he falls in love with Genevieve. He is gorgeous, uber-sexy and has an engaging compulsion towards self reflection. He fights his attraction at first, dismissing it as just lust but the more he learns about Genevieve, the more he admires her intelligence, her stoicism, her efforts t secure the best future she can for those she cares for. As he comes to understand the difficulties she lives with on a daily basis and as he discovers each new facet of her character, his heart becomes increasingly engaged until he realises with some shock that he is in love with her.

As much as I fell in love with Kit, it was Genevieve who spoke to me most. How hard it must have been to hide her intelligence and intellectual pursuits. How difficult it must have been to sublimate her leadership skills into organising family matters, when, had she been born male, she could have made her mark in the world as a leader in her own right. How hard it must have been to rely on the charity of others as an indigent relation and have to scheme for a way to make a life for herself. And yet Genevieve is loving, compassionate and honest in the way she reacts to Kit and to the effect he has on her.

There is a very cinematic quality to the book. Scenes on the dance floor, theatre, beach and The Hesperus are very vivid and serve to highlight and enhance the different stages of their romance. A host of supporting characters are bought to life with a delicate touch and each has a vital role to play in emphasising aspects of the protagonists' characters and motivations. I particularly enjoyed the imperious Dowager Countess in all her horror and had a sneaking sympathy for Julian, Kit's kind but ineffectual cousin.

All in all, this is a gorgeous book: a social commentary with depth, a witty, romantic and sexy love story with wonderfully vivid characters. I just loved it.
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