The Gentlemen’s Club (Noire series Book 1)

The lure of danger is the greatest temptation

In Victorian London, a man can purchase any kind of vice, and Lord Henry McCaulay avails himself of every possible pleasure.

The confirmed bachelor and rake holds women in disdain: empty-headed, simpering debutantes and gossiping matrons alike… until he meets Mademoiselle Noire, the enigmatic and alluring hostess at his exclusive London Club. His hunger for her is insatiable, his recklessness without limits.

Lady Maud Finchingfield is a determined young woman, struggling within the confines of polite society. Must she marry for status and respectability? Must she submit to any man of means who desires to claim her? Embarking on the pursuit of knowledge, she seeks the independence of mind forbidden to young women of her class.

As their paths collide, McCaulay is forced to admit his admiration, for Maud’s pursuit of freedom, for her refusal to bend her head to the yoke.

She has vowed never to belong to any man. He has promised never to let a woman rule his heart.

Irresistibly drawn together, they’re in danger of falling prey to more than desire.

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.