The Gentlemen's Club

The lure of danger is the greatest temptation A woman who refuses to follow the rules.... In a world that belongs to men, Lady Maud Finchingfield is a bluestocking seeking a level of forbidden independence. Within the secret chambers of London’s most decadent club, where the ruling elite indulge every vice, can Maud discover freedom and pleasure by bringing those who would dominate into submission? A man who never expected to lose his control… Lord Henry McCaulay views women with disdain. That is, until he meets the enigmatic Mademoiselle Noire, the alluring hostess at his club, who both fascinates and infuriates him. As games of power draw Henry and Mademoiselle Noire together, their liaison leads to reckless passion and the risk of scandal. Each enthralling encounter confirms his hunger to possess her, as thoroughly as she has claimed him - in body and soul. Can sexual desire transform into the ultimate surrender, and the unmasking of love? A darkly sensual romance, set in 1899, recommended by Stylist magazine as ‘a mind-blowing’ read. Heat level: deliciously kinky The first, seductive volume of Emmanuelle de Maupassant's Noire series.