London playwright and notorious rake Lennox Townsend is renowned for bold melodrama and bolder pleasures. When he loses interest in both, his shy yet devoted patron Lord Jonathan Grant escorts him to a country boarding house managed by repressed widow, Mrs. Viola Prescott. The trio soon surrender to sizzling—and forbidden—passion, made sweeter as each share their deepest secrets and find acceptance of their true self. Yet cold reality is ever ready to intrude, and they know happiness is fleeting. Or is it? This MMF erotic Regency romance contains explicit sex scenes, strong language, and enthusiastically consensual BDSM play. It was previously published in the anthology Rake I’d Like to F… CW: infertility, death of family members discussed