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A Loving Scoundrel

  • 2004 first published
  • 448 pages
  • ★ 4.6 (9 ratings)
  • 7 editions

A Loving Scoundrel is a 2004 historical romance and Regency romance novel by Johanna Lindsey. The story is set in Great Britain, in the 19th century. Characters include Malory family, Danny and Jeremy Malory. Readers will find themes of false personation, rogues and vagabonds, impostors and imposture and malory family.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, and 30 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 7 editions.

At about 448 pages, most readers finish it in 8–9 hours.

About A Loving Scoundrel

(The seventh book in the Malory Family series) Jeremy, the son of gentleman pirate James Malory, falls in love.... When Danny, a young woman who grew up on the streets of London with no memory of her real family, is banished from her gang because she helped handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, Danny demands that Jeremy give her a job. She is determined to become respectable in order to fulfill her dream of marrying and starting a family. Intrigued by her beauty and spunk, Jeremy hires Danny as his upstairs maid, although he wants her as his mistress. Under the tutelage of Jeremy and his cousin Regina, Danny blossoms into a lady. Although she is drawn to Jeremy by passionate feelings she has never experienced before, she refuses to be anything more than a servant to him because she knows he is not the marrying kind. When Danny undergoes a Cinderella-like transformation and poses as Jeremy's new love in an attempt to help him avert a scandal, a few highly placed members of the ton remark on how familiar Danny looks. Now tongues are wagging, raising the question of her true identity, which threatens not only Danny's chances of capturing Jeremy's heart but her very life.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Era

Characters

  • Malory family
  • Danny
  • Jeremy Malory
  • Regina

Subjects

  • Regency Historical Romance
  • False personation
  • Love stories
  • Rogues and vagabonds
  • Impostors and imposture
  • Picaresque literature
  • London, England
  • Malory family

Quick answers

Who wrote A Loving Scoundrel?

A Loving Scoundrel was written by Johanna Lindsey and first published in 2004.

What genre is A Loving Scoundrel?

It is usually shelved as Historical Romance and Regency Romance.

How long is A Loving Scoundrel?

The median edition has 448 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to A Loving Scoundrel?

Readers who like it often enjoy A Civil Contract, The Toll-Gate and The Unexpected Wife.

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