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“Strong, intelligent women had always been his weakness. He blamed it on the example set by Miles’s mother, Rose. She’d been something of a bluestocking, too, with her forward-thinking ways, and her determination to better herself and her son despite all the odds against her. The granite wall of Gabriel’s already weakened defenses began to crumble.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

“Every day, Jack endeavored to deserve it. To be worthy of her friendship, her trust, , her love. Given the glow in Bea's face and the lightness of her step as she moved through their new life together, he flattered himself that he was, in some small measure, succeeding.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Governess and the Rogue

“All the wrongness in her world had been extinguished by the rightness of whatever this was between them. It was a hazardous alchemy.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

“Just because a lady shared a deep, smoldering kiss with a gentleman didn’t mean that gentleman need be privy to all that lady’s business.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin