Lauren Smith

The Earl of Kent

HE’S BATTERED AND BROKEN…
Targeted by the enemies of a friend, roguish Phillip Wilkes, the Earl of Kent, is nearly killed in a violent attack. Beaten and left for dead, he is rescued and nursed back to health by a beautiful angel that he’s convinced exists only in his dreams. When he recovers and learns his heart was burning for none other than the sister of his closest friend, he knows she is forbidden to him. He runs away from the only woman who has ever shown him true kindness because who could ever learn to love a broken man?
SHE BELIEVES IN THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE…
Ella Humphrey is cursed when it comes to love. Two overprotective brothers and the entire League of Rogues, are determined to protect her at all costs, even from falling in love. She feels trapped. When a man at death’s door is delivered to her care, she recognizes him as the friend of one of her brothers, and more importantly as the man she secretly loved for years. As her affection deepens for the wounded earl, she envisions a happy future with him. Yet the moment Phillip can walk again, he leaves Ella and breaks her heart. 
CAN MISTLETOE WORK MISCHIEF AND MIRACLES? 
A year later, Ella fears she’ll never find a way back into Phillip’s guarded heart. He becomes a recluse, too afraid to show the world how broken he is. Ella manages to convince Phillip to escort her to a country estate for a Christmas party. Snowed in at a small village inn, Ella finally has a chance to seduce the earl and remind him that broken bodies and broken hearts can be healed.
189 printed pages
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
Publisher
Lauren Smith
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    Charles’s words brought back a memory from a long-ago Christmas where she had foolishly thrown herself at Lord Kent. She had been a girl then, and he’d wanted nothing to do with her. The memory made her mind flood with disquieting thoughts of the past and the regrets she carried about that night. If only she hadn’t asked for a kiss, they might have continued to play billiards, and she wouldn’t have made such a fool of herself.

    Their mother growled and chucked her fan at Charles, who deftly caught it.

    “You know exactly what I mean, Charles Michael Edward Humphrey. Now talk.”

    “Oh,” he sighed dramatically. “The girl from the Sandersons’ ball. You must mean Lily Wycliff.”

    “Yes. That Wycliff girl. Who is she?”

    Ella leaned closer. Whatever woman held his interest was certainly worth hearing about.

    “Well, she’s a widow.” Charles’s teasing tone turned more serious.

    Violet’s brows drew together. “A widow?”

    “Her husband, Aaron Wycliff, was a favorite cousin of the Duchess of Essex.”

    “A country gentleman, then?” Her mother tapped her fingers against her chin in thought.

    “I believe so,” Charles answered, and Ella watched in fascination as her brother and mother seemed to have a silent conversation as well, spoken only in looks, as to how serious the situation was.

    “And the widow? Where do her people hail from?”

    Charles’s mouth opened, but then he looked slightly baffled. “I honestly have no idea.”

    Ella set her book down and gave up all pretense of reading.

    “You are falling in love with a woman, and you don’t even know who she is?” Violet continued.

    Ella was tempted to cut in and tell her mother that sometimes love at first sight did exist. She had experienced that once, years ago. Kent’s soft eyes filled her mind before she banished the painful memory.

    Charles frowned. “I didn’t say I was falling in love with her. We’ve only just met.”

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