![]() ![]() Sexy, heartbreaking, and empowering, I need the second book in the series immediately. Their casual, summer affair soon blossoms into something more, and soon Seraphina and Adam both have to grapple with the secrets of their pasts and how their ambitions and desires for the future might ruin their future together. Seraphina Ardens passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. Adam Anderson is a wholesome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children to raise, a business to protect, and a strong aversion to scandal. Shes a Rakess on a quest for womens rights. She writes radical pamphlets and lives her life precisely the way she wants, complete with wine-soaked nights, handsome lovers, and all. Seraphina Arden is a “ruined” woman who has embraced her scandalous reputation on a quest for women’s equality. Men are allowed to be unrepentant rakes, but women almost never are. We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. I love reading about a devilish rake meeting his romantic match as much as anyone, but it is undeniable that the trope is deeply entangled in outdated binary gender roles. The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham is available from: As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. The historical romance genre is inundated with rakes: dissolute, handsome ne’er-do-wells whose hard-partying lifestyle is (usually) tempered by their love for the novel’s heroine. Editions for The Rakess: 0062935615 (Mass Market Paperback published in 2020), (Kindle Edition published in 2020), 0062935623 (ebook published in 2020). ![]()
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