To Rescue A Rogue

Lord Darius Debenham returned from Waterloo a different man — wounded in ways that go far deeper than battlefield scars, and slowly losing himself to the opium that keeps the pain at bay. Lady Mara St. Bride has known Dare since childhood, and she refuses to watch him disappear. What unfolds is a love story built not on conquest but on rescue — tender, complicated, and entirely mutual. The emotional stakes here are quiet but real: two people who must decide whether hope is worth the risk of being wrong.

Jo Beverley's great strength has always been character, and this final installment of her long-running Company of Rogues series rewards readers who have followed these friends across a dozen books — though it stands handsomely on its own. Her Regency prose is warm and precise, never florid, and she handles Dare's addiction with unusual honesty for the genre. The ensemble of Rogues gives the novel a lived-in texture that feels more like revisiting old friends than reading fiction, and Mara's fierce, clear-eyed affection makes her one of Beverley's most compelling heroines.