Hazard

Lady Anne Peckworth has been jilted twice with perfect composure, but the arrival of Race de Vere — rakish, irreverent, wholly unsuitable for a duke's sheltered daughter — dismantles the composure entirely, because he is exactly the kind of trouble she has never been allowed to encounter. What begins as improper and inadvisable accelerates into genuinely dangerous, climaxing in a single high-stakes night that will determine whether both of them win or lose everything. Jo Beverley's eighth Company of Rogues novel delivers the series' characteristic blend of Regency wit and romantic tension.

Anne Flosnik's narration gives Anne the intelligence and barely contained frustration that make her compelling rather than merely proper, and she handles the comedy of Race's cheerful rule-breaking with light, assured timing. At just over thirteen hours, the production captures the period atmosphere without becoming stiff, and Flosnik's warmth on the emotional beats makes the central relationship genuinely engaging. A reliable Regency romance listen.