Cocky Viscount by Annabelle Anders

Cocky Viscount Series: Regency Cocky Gents series book #5
on April 27, 2021
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 328
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What happens when a lady breaks the rules?

Felicity Brightley is the most genteel of ladies. Raised to marry the Earl of Westerley, she’s never failed to follow the dictates of society. Doing so, she’d been promised, ensured lifelong security and happiness. When her future is shattered, however, she decides it’s time she tests those rules—perhaps make up a few of her own.

Viscount Manningham-Tissinton (Mantis) isn’t looking for a wife—especially not a lady considered a diamond of the first water. So when he stumbles upon Felicity, devastated by the betrayal at the hands of one of Manti’s closest friends, he takes it upon himself to comfort her. With a single kiss, and then another—until a storm of passion ignites between them—a storm that threatens to land them both in scandal.

Because breaking the rules comes with a price. Will that price be a lifetime of regret, or is it fate’s serendipitous design for their happily ever after?

Only one way to find out...

Cocky Viscount is book five in the Regency Cocky Gents series. I enjoyed this book. Lady Felicity was betrothed to the Earl of Westerley for several years, but when he openly ditches her for another at a ball, she is devastated. I related to the character of Felicity. She doesn’t ignore her pain; she fully allows herself to experience it. Lord Manningham-Tissinton is the hero. But what happens when his actions threaten to ruin Felicity even more than Westerleys? Lots of steamy scenes and even some mystery in this book. There were several plot twists that I didn’t expect.  I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series.