Too Dangerous For a Lady

Lady Hermione Merryhew is not looking for trouble, but when a fugitive climbs through her bedroom window in the middle of the night and turns out to be a man from her past, she finds herself drawn into a conspiracy involving violent revolutionaries plotting an attack on London. Mark Thayne, now a viscount operating undercover within the radical Crimson Band, needs to survive long enough to dismantle the group, and Hermione's inconvenient involvement means he has to protect her while keeping her at a distance. Jo Beverley's fifteenth Company of Rogues novel is an intrigue-driven Regency romance with genuine action-adventure stakes.

Susan Duerden brings the Regency voice that the Company of Rogues series requires, balancing wit and period formality with the emotional stakes that the romance demands. Her Hermione is practical and sharp rather than conventionally genteel, and Duerden makes the central relationship's evolution feel credible. At twelve hours, this is a satisfying late entry in a long-running series.