The Rake's Redemption: A Regency Romance (Wedding the Heiress #2)

Judith Hampton loved Thomas Stainford. Once. With all the fervour and intensity that only a young girl in the throes of her first love can feel. Nothing could have altered the way she felt. Yet now she loathes the sight of him.

Not because his scheming to rebuild his military career threatens to ruin her betrothal to the man whose purse strings support her family;
not because he’s disgraced and disinherited as heir to his father the Earl of Penwick after facing his own brother over the barrel of a duelling pistol;
not even because of the scandals over women, his own sister in law included, that marked his progress through Portugal and Spain with Wellington’s army.

She hates him because he broke her heart and ruined her in the space of a few short weeks before he left to go to the Peninsular War.

Judith’s circumstances have altered since then. The Hamptons, flush with land and lineage, haven’t enough money to sustain their estate or pay off her brother John’s debts. With her father ailing a suitable marriage is imperative for Judith. Thomas’ return and the secrets they share threaten this unedifying but essential ambition.

Might it also rekindle their love? And if it does how will Judith know she’s finally reformed her rake?