She's a spinster. He's just found out that he's her guardian. Will their childhood friendship turn to love?**Juliet likes books, ficuses, and spinsterhood. In that order. She's planning a future of philosophical discussions and fencing with like-minded women. What she's not planning is to find out that her childhood friend-turned-adonis has somehow been appointed her guardian for the next year until she receives her inheritance. Ryker, a lost rogue, would like nothing better than to ignore any present truths in his life. He's not ready to face anything with substance. Especially if that substance is an alluring women who turns out to be his ward. Can a secret letter bring the rogue and the reader together at last?Read The One With the Rogue and the Reader if you love guardian-ward, forbidden love vibes, and sweet and spicy reads. The One With the Rogue and the Reader* is the first standalone novella in the steamy regency romance The One With the Rogue and the ReaderThe One With the Duke's Curvy Bride (coming soon!)The One With the Duke, a Scandal, and a Mistletoe (coming this Christmas!)\This book was originally published in a shorter version in the Love for Maui Anthology as The Rogue and the Reader.