A Companion For the Earl (Lords of Voluptas)

A rake and a vicar’s daughter searching for pleasure. Lord Laurence, the Earl of Sherbonne, thinks love is a fairytale and marriage a curse. He is a rake who lives for pleasure and has been disillusioned by women. But when Anne Calverley, the vicar’s daughter, runs away from home the day before she is supposed to marry her father’s protégé and finds herself at Dalen Court as his mother’s companion, he finds it difficult to keep up his rakish nonchalance. At Dalen Court, Anne is plunged into a world of pleasure and delight far removed from the bleak existence she knew at the vicarage. The earl teaches her to embrace the joys of life and she soon discovers that love is the greatest pleasure. However, her fiancé́ is furious that she has disappeared and is determined to get her back. Is love strong enough to overcome the past and set the earl and Anne free from the things that bind them? Publisher's This steamy historical romance contains a theme of power exchange.