Catherine Gayle

In "Twice a Rake," the first Lord Rotheby's Influence novel by Catherine Gayle, Aurora Hyatt's ruin seems inevitable when she loses her journal containing scandalous fantasies in Hyde Park. Niles Thornton, Baron Quinton, finds the journal and sees it as an opportunity to fulfill his grandfather's requirement to marry and start a family within a year. After Quin drunkenly kisses Aurora in a crowded ballroom, they are forced into a hasty marriage. As Aurora's writings become the talk of the town, Quin must navigate the ensuing scandal and prove himself a loving husband, unlike his abusive father.