She's going to make him fall for her... and has no intention of catching him!
Lady Maggie knows two things for certain: dogs make better companions than people and handsome viscounts are not to be trusted. She craves an independent life where she can play cricket with her friends, never allowing something as unstable as love to cloud her judgment. But when childhood enemy Lord Michael Viscount Burlington waltzes back into her life, her steadfast beliefs fly out the window at his first rakish smile. When he spends a night toying with her emotions, forcing Maggie to dig up old feelings she thought she'd buried long ago, she quickly realizes that he hasn't changed a bit. More importantly, Lord Michael deserves a taste of his own medicine. Maggie comes up with a plan: she will make the viscount fall in love with her, and the second she holds his heart in her hand, she'll break it.
But as Maggie puts her plan into action, she notices right away that the viscount isn't the teasing boy she once knew.
Lord Michael is no stranger to breaking things. He's spent most of his life bare-knuckle boxing and would love nothing more than to focus on a career in the ring rather than his duties as a viscount. When his father urges him to put all that behind him and find a wife, Michael is not interested in any of the mealy-mouthed, docile ladies he's presented with-not when Lady Maggie is always there to grab his attention. She's everything he shouldn't want and everything he wants to be: opinionated, wild, desperately independent. She's also the only person who understands Michael's family's past and why fighting means so much to him.
When Michael gets the opportunity to fight the bare-knuckle champion, he's ready for all of his hard work to pay off. With Maggie by his side, he's never felt stronger. But Maggie can't say the same. Her plan is unraveling. She was so fixated on stealing Michael's heart that she was blind to his doing the same to her.
Can Maggie learn to let go? Can she trust Michael with her love and her future, or will he leave her like all the other people in her life? She's terrified that the quiet, single future that she envisioned for herself is about to blow up in her face. Because revenge was on her mind, but now love is in her heart.
The Cricket Club
Book 1 - A Perfect Match
Book 2 - The Play's the Thing
Book 3 - Love Sport
Book 4 - The Lucky Catch
Book 5 - Match Made in Heaven
Book 6 - The Perfect Score
Thorne, Margaux: - Margaux Thorne is a lifelong reader of romance novels. Some of her earliest memories are sneaking into her mom's room at night and stealing any books she could find. After moving around quite a bit, she's finally put down roots in New England with her two sons and husband. She's always been a writer, starting out in newspapers, but it wasn't until her sons began going to school full-time that she began working towards her dream of becoming a romance author. She enjoys crocheting toys for her kids, hiking with her Saint Bernard, and watching all the Real Housewives franchises on the couch with her very old and very fat pugs.
