A review by winterreader40
A Rake's Midnight Kiss by Anna Campbell

4.0

Richard, the bastard baronet, in a fit of anger decides he needs to retrieve an old family heirloom that was willed to a complete stranger by an estranged aunt because it apparently confirms the heirs right to rule. Genevieve is a blue stocking that is working on a paper about said heirloom that she inherited one night when a thief breaks in, he locks her in her office and doesn't steal anything which she thought was odd, but Richard is the thief and he just wanted to confirm that she actually had the pendant so he can offer to buy it from her.
He goes undercover as the scholarly Chris Evans who wishes to study with her father, but he covets Genevieve more than the pendant so he keeps biding his time. Her fathers patron is a creep who wants Genevieve, even more once he see's the pendant and he proceeds to become nothing but evil intentions.
I enjoyed all the characters but I really wanted to kill her father towards the end for his extremely bad reaction to certain events.

TW: attempted rape