Let Sleeping Rogues Lie

March 28, 2011
Practical Madeline Prescott is a teacher at a school for daughters of wealthy families. The newly titled Viscount Norcourt, who has a history of being a womanizing rake, must persuade the school staff to accept his newly orphaned niece and recommend him as her guardian. Each is slightly misfit in their situations, and that awkwardness makes them appealing to the reader. But while actress Justine Eyre's narration is competent, her aristocratic intonations don't seem natural and her performance sometimes seems exaggerated; the affectations grate. Though there are slight variations in tone, they do not suffice to clearly distinguish characters. A Pocket paperback.

February 15, 2008
Shocked but intrigued when the scientifically inclined schoolmarm Madeline Prescott asks him to give rakehell-avoidance lessons to the young heiresses at the school in which he wants to enroll his orphaned niece, Anthony Dalton, the notorious Viscount Norcourt, reluctantly agrees, only to find himself irritated by and attracted to a forthright young woman who isn't about to fall victim to his seductive charms. Scandal, gossip, greed, and old enmities spice up the pot in this fast-paced, sexy romp that bubbles over with Jeffries's ("Beware a Scot's Revenge") trademark humor and spirit, as an unconventional heroine on a mission to redeem her father's reputation and a hero with goals of his own find love where they least expect it. Sparkling dialog, stirring sexual chemistry, and an engrossing story are bonuses in the fourth installment in the author's "School for Heiresses" series. Jeffries lives in North Carolina.

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March 15, 2008
After her fathers career as a physician is destroyed, Madeline Prescott takes a position teaching math and science at Mrs. Harris School for Young Ladies. Madelines small salary is some help, but what she really needs is a way to contact noted chemist Sir Humphrey Davy, whose pioneering work with nitrous oxide might help restore her fathers reputation. When Anthony Dalton, Viscount Norcourt, turns up at the academy seeking a favor, Madeline sees the solution to her problem. In exchange for overseeing Anthonys rakehell lessons at the academy, Madeline coerces him into taking herto a nitrous-oxide party. Madeline is convinced that working with Anthony will simply be a matter of science until she discovers there is nothing scientific about desire. Sizzling sexual chemistry and anintriguing, science-tinged plot makeJeffries latest Schoolfor Heiresses title especiallyintriguing.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)