Rake's Ransom and a Loyal Companion

by Barbara Metzger

Book Overview

When a politician tries to blackmail her, Jacelyn decides to kidnap his nephew. But she abducts the wrong rake, the dashing Lord Leigh Claibourne, whose honor she will soon put to the test in Rake's Ransom. In A Loyal Companion, country girl Sonia, out of place in the London Season, befriends Darius, whose wartime heroism hasn't erased his scandalous past. But she's still determined to undo the shackles of his heart.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451217934
• ISBN13: 9780451217936
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Regency Romance At It's Best

I always enjoy reading Barbara Metzger. Both of these stories are fun reading. The characters are delightful.

Two fun regencies in one book

RAKE'S RANSOM and A LOYAL COMPANION by Barbara Metzger April 16, 2006 Rating: 4/5 Stars I enjoyed reading this two-in-one novel by Barbara Metzger. Two older novels were reprinted and published in one binding, RAKE'S RANSOM and A LOYAL COMPANION. Both actually have similar plots, but were slightly different. RAKE'S RANSOM featured a young woman whom most people assumed would never find a husband, due to her tomboyish ways. Along comes a man she thinks is her childhood friend Arthur, but instead he turns out to be the Lord Clairborne, whom she kidnaps as a joke and then falls under his spell. He is known to be a rake, and she has been found in an uncompromising position with him. To rectify things, he offers to marry her. In A LOYAL COMPANION, we again have a young woman that seems to be not very good marriage material, but she finds herself attached to a man who is nearly an outcast to society, thus almost making her an outcast. In this novel however, the book is partly narrated by A DOG, which I found was done very humorously and had me laughing at all the right places. Both books were fun, as Barbara Metzger's novels tend to be. I highly recommend these to the romance fan that has yet to read a regency. She definitely is the queen of the regency romance, and I hope to read more by her.