Three Heroes

Jo Beverley is best known for her Mallorens and her Rogues series but in among the Rogues is the Three Georges. This book puts them together in their post Waterloo romances. All three have been published separately and I know I bought Devil’s Heiress but I never read it and have no clue where it disappeared too. Van, Con, and Hawk had tattoos applied to their chests prior to Waterloo so they would be able to identify each other’s bodies if it became necessary. Those tattoos are objects of female speculation in each book. George Van Deimen (Van) has a demon tattoo and he is rescued from suicide by a rich widow who wants to “hire” him to keep fortune hunters at bay. A fortune hunter himself, Van needs money to restore his estates which his father almost lost in a bad investment scheme. The widow has money but is wary of tying herself and her fortune to a man like her former husband. Other issues (such as infertility) have play in this story but like all romances it turns out in the end.
Con is a Rogue as well as a George. His dragon is from a distant relative whose estate Con never expected to inherit and he definitely didn’t expect his first love to be the housekeeper there. A true Rogues story involving smugglers, lost pasts, arcane objects, and true love is woven here with great craft.
And what happens to Con when a George sets himself against the Rogues. Hawk must save the family estate from the mortgage of an industrialist by capturing the fortune which went to a poor schoolgirl following the Rogue’s escapades with Lord Devlin. Hawk’s stepfather has spent the family fortune to win the title of Lord Devlin, Hawk has no way to get the 20,000 pounds needed to redeem Hawk in the Vale without either marrying the Devil’s Heiress or proving her to be a fraud. It’s nice to see a romance heroine who isn’t a raging beauty and Regency woman who are followers of Mary Wollstonecraft.