The Lady Risks All
I am very late to the Stephanie Laurens party. My first exposure to her writing was the recent Cynster Sisters trilogy, but I was immediately hooked by her vivid storytelling and compelling characters. While I haven’t had the courage to tackle her entire back catalog of books, I was quite anxious to read her latest story. I must say that The Lady Risks All was worth all the anticipation as I was rewarded with a great story and two very strong, vibrant lead characters.Because my exposure to the extended Laurens universe is limited I went into this book with no information of who Neville Roscoe is. I’ve since learned he was a minor recurring character in the Black Cobra Quartet series of books, but even within those pages he was a mystery to the lead characters. As The Lady Risks All opens we are introduced to a younger version of Roscoe, originally known as Lord Julian Delbraith, younger brother to the sitting Duke of Ridgware. When a tragedy rocks the foundations of his family and a potential scandal jeopardizes the title, Julian immediately steps into the role of patriarch, sacrificing his own wealth and position within society so that the rest of his family might survive. The next time we see Julian it has been twelve years since that fateful night and he has reinvented himself as Neville Roscoe, gambling king of London and a man who straddles the line between the respectable and the disreputable.
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