Dangerous Compromise [Mass Market Paperback]

"Delicious, delightful, and devilishly good reading..." -- Emily Hendrickson, author of The Rake's Revenge

What if a rake refused to reform?

Convinced that reformed rakes make the best husbands, beautiful and spirited Clarissa Derhurst is determined to find one of her own--and reform him for herself. Only a rake will be capable of the grand passion she craves, but finding the right one isn't as easy as she expected. Then she meets Evan Fortesque, Lord Wolviston, and discovers that despite his considerably less than wicked appearance, he's a rouge of the first order...

To teach the lovely Clarissa a lesson she won't soon forget, Wolviston decides to play the part of an irredeemable rake for all it's worth--until he finds that Clarissa has attracted the attention of the true article. Suddenly Wolviston must stoop to some scandalously flirtatious behavior to win the woman who has stolen his heart...

Shannon Donnelly grew up with the perfect education for a Regency sportswoman, learning to ride, fence and shoot (the last courtesy of an uncle who collected flintlocks). A Compromising Situation, her first published Regency from Zebra, won the Romance Writers of America's national Golden Heart contest, Regency category. She also won Grand Prize in the Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer contest, judged by Nora Roberts, which earned her a trip to Paris. Shannon's second Regency romance, A Dangerous Compromise, is due out from Zebra, June 2001, and her third, Under the Kissing Bough is a Christmas 2001 release. She also has novellas coming out in the Autumn Kittens Anthology and the Valentine's Anthology from Zebra. Her abiding passions include--beside writing--a husband, three dogs, reading, gardening, and the ever present horses in her life.