Review: If You Give a Rake a Ruby by Shana Galen

Her Mysterious Past is the Best Revenge...

Fallon, the Marchioness of Mystery, is a celebrated courtesan with her finger on the pulse of high society. She's adored by men, hated by their wives. No one knows anything about her past, and she plans to keep it that way.

Only He Can Offer Her a Dazzling Future...

Warrick Fitzhugh will do anything to protect his compatriots in the Foreign Office, including seduce Fallon, who he thinks can lead him to the deadliest crime lord in London. He knows he's putting his life on the line...

To Warrick's shock, Fallon is not who he thinks she is, and the secrets she's keeping are exactly what makes her his heart's desire...

This series just gets better and better.  If You Give a Rake a Ruby is the second book of Ms. Galen's Jewels of the Ton series and focuses on Fallon, the Marchioness of Mystery.  Warrick Fitzhugh is chasing a mystery in terms of an investigation for the Foreign Office, so he enlists Fallon's help.  The two spend more and more time together, and as luck would have it, they fall in love. 

I really enjoyed Fallon and Fitzhugh's banter throughout the book.  I also liked that Fallon's childhood in St. Giles is able to be of use to her once more.  But what I really enjoyed was Lily, the Countess of Charm, and her actions to help Fitzhugh with his investigation.  It will be interesting to have the mystery of the diamonds finally solved and Lucifer unmasked in the third book, Sapphire's Are an Earl's Best Friend (March 2014). 

(A very special thank you to Sourcebooks Casablanca and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of If You Give a Rake A Ruby.)