This is one of those books that started out strong. A jilted woman who is still in love with the rogue that had to walk away because he was battling his own demons? Ok. That sounds intriguing. But from there it just fell flat. The more I read, the less my interest was held to the point that was skipping paragraphs and just skimming the pages looking for something of interest. I finally gave up and DNF'd at 64%

The spice was zero. The character development was minimal. The story fell flat. Maybe if I made it all the way through my opinion would change. I just couldn't make it far enough for that to happen.

This wasn't my favorite of Leigh's series but this WAS my favorite book in the series. Her books keep getting hotter and hotter and I mean his name is DOM you know what to expect here and I loved it.

Overall a solid read, but I definitely expected more out of this angsty second chance romance. Dom and Willa’s romance has been built up since book 1, so my expectations were pretty high, but in the end I felt this story was a bit too simple for these characters? I’m not quite sure how to explain it.

As usual from Eva Leigh, the steamy scenes were top notch so there’s that at least lol.

**thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing an e-arc in exchange for an honest review**

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I actually didn't finish the entire book. I never connected with the characters, main or secondary. I found the story to be something like 10 shades of grey with nasty talk. Why wasn't she ruined? Why didn't he learn good manners? If you have enough money that the Ton lets you into their events, you should at least be nice & polite. I tried several times and could never make it through every page.

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This is the latest in the series but I don't know that you need to read the previous books to understand this one.
This is a second chance romance for Dom and Willa, after Dom abandoned Willa before their wedding due to his secret.
Willa's brothers conspire to bring the two together on a isolated island own by the libertine Longsbridge.
Dom and Willa were kinda boring. I didn't really care about either character. They felt one dementional, even though they had a past together I did let feel like there was anything more than lust.
It's an okay but with nothing really keeping the FMC and MMC apart and no other secondary plot.
3 stars.

I enjoyed How the Wallflower was Won, the second book in the Last Chance Scoundrels series. After I finished it, I could hardly wait for this book because it features my kind of hero.

Dominic Kilburn is a man with a past who leaves Lady Willa at the altar. Dom is dark, brooding, and full of secrets. Both characters were interesting and I especially loved Dom’s character.

The couple are stranded on an island together at a secluded house party. The isolated island setting is the perfect setup for this couple to reconcile, or kill each other!

I didn't like the fact that Dom drops all his reasons for not marrying Willa, with little explanation. They quickly reach their HEA without much discussion or untangling of the issues that kept them apart. The romance scenes were excellent, if a bit modern, but I liked them.

Overall, the book had a great setting with interesting characters and was a fun second chance/forced proximity romance.

I really enjoyed this one. Willa and Dom's book as they now have to comeback from the jilted wedding in book 1. So this one is full circle. I loved how Dom did what he did because he thinks he's not good enough for Willa, but something that he did in the past is the big reason why. Willa is extremely hurt by Dom's action. They are forced together on an island so they end up seeing each other enough in which they can't avoid and feelings resurface for each other they can't ignore.

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I received "A Rogue's Rules for Seduction" as an ARC from #Netgalley. I really enjoyed this book. It was a fast read and incredibly sexy. I loved the enemies to lovers, forced proximity romance. What I found great about this book was the continual building of the previous main characters relationships. Was it completely realistic, no, but it was fun to read.

Eva Leigh is one of my most favorite authors. Her stories never let me down. This second-chance romance is another one of her amazing adventures that I got lost in. Let's just say edge of your seat moments & Hot Hot Hot, I couldn't put it down.
Lady Willa Ransom & Dominic Kilburn have a rough past together. After past secrets threaten Kilburn right before their wedding he leaves Lady Willa at the alter and breaks her heart. Now they have both unknowingly excepted invitations to a house party at a secluded country home, Now they are stranded there thanks to some friends & family who plotted to get them together.Now they must face their past while facing each other. Their old passion for each other is still there, but can Willa let the past go & can Dom make it up to her.
This has been one of my favorite adventures from Eva Leigh so far. Her writing captivates you and makes you feel like part of her story, with characters you become so attached to that you can't help but fall in love with them. I couldn't put this one down. All those perfect moments. It was so exciting and so passionate I could read it over and over,in fact I know I will.
I highly recommend A Rouge's Rules for Seduction.
I was lucky enough to receive an ARC copy and all opinions are my own.

A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Leigh is book Three in the Last Chance Scoundrels Series. This is the story of Dominic Kilburn and Willa Ransom. Willa and Dominic where set to marry but then something happened and Dominic left Willa at the alter. Now Willa is trying to make the best of things and takes a offer to a house party. Which her friends have set up Dominic to be there too as a way to get them back together. Enjoyed this book.

Every entry in this series by Leigh has been fantastic! This concluding novel wraps up everything with a nice bow. Leigh's creativity when writing romance knows no bounds. She is endlessly creative with characters, setting, and pacing.

Willa and Dom were engaged but he failed to show up at the church on the day of the wedding and did not offer her an explanation. Willa left London and went on a tour of Europe to get over the heartbreak she was suffering. Now they are both back in the same city and are currently on an island in Scotland at a house party with no way of leaving until the boat returns to take them home. Also included in the house party are her two brother's Finn and Keiran and the wives, Tabitha and Celeste(Dom's sister). Dom is the only one of the group who is yet to marry as demanded by their parents or they will no longer provide them with an income. Can Dom and Willa spend time with each other and try to get back the relationship they had before or is it too late for them? Dom tries as much as possible to avoid spending time with Willa because he doesn't want to hurt her anymore and he also has a secret that he hasn't shared with any of his friends or family. Dom fears his secret would be prevent Willa from wanting to be with him and also cause problems for their families if it was revealed. During the course of the house party, Willa and Dom are frequently put into positions were they must spend time with each other. Could it be their family playing matchmakers in an attempt to get them back together? The story started off as a slow burn but it crescendoed into a steamy lovefest between the H/h near the end.

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3.5 stars rounded up.

Since Dominic Kilburn left Lady Willa Ransom at the altar a year ago, she has done everything possible to hide just how deeply it hurt her. After a year spent traveling the continent, Willa is ready to move on with her life and accepts an invitation to a house party on a remote Scottish island with the hopes of moving on from her embarrassment and the attraction she still holds for the man who left her.

When secrets from Dom’s past reemerged just before he was meant to be married, he knew he couldn’t go through with it given how undeserving he was of Willa, so he ran. Regardless, he still longs for the only woman to have ever found a place in his heart. Hoping to escape the longing plaguing him, Dom agrees to accompany his friends to a house party on an isolated Scottish island. Unfortunately, one of the guests is the woman he can’t stop thinking about and about whom he dreams impossible things.

Forced together by their well-intentioned family and friends, Willa and Dom work to resist the smoldering connection between them, but the line between love and despising blurs and their attraction combusts. But Dom’s past hasn’t changed and Willa fears being hurt again, leaving their happily ever after far from certain.

I have been anticipating this book for such a long time that I was hesitant to even read it now given the terrible slump I’ve fallen into, but I also didn’t want to put it off any longer. I don’t want to say it disappointed me, but I will say it wasn’t quite all I’d hoped for, though my expectations were of course very high. As always when I’m like this, you risk potential spoilers from here. Honestly, this story just felt very repetitive. Dom at least was sure he wanted to be with Willa, just equally sure he didn’t deserve to be, but Willa was just very wishy-washy about everything. Even past 60% we still didn’t get even a kiss between the MCs and I began to really lose patience. There was a ton of pining and longing, but it just grew boring and repetitive to me. I get that running away was Willa’s thing, but it still felt like she hadn’t really shown any development at all by the end of the book. Dom, on the other hand, did do some growing and reflecting. He was honest with her and made it clear that he just wanted to give her everything, but all she’d give him was chaotic mixed signals. Even when they finally did spend time together, nothing was resolved, and I grew bored all over again with her repetitive thoughts on keeping herself from being hurt again. Also, what the heck was with the random bdsm scene? I’m supposed to believe a virgin just randomly decided to tie a man up and use a crop on him? It just felt so random and weird, and I found it wholly unsatisfying. Even after all this emotional outlay from Dom, it was like Willa still hadn’t truly listened to his feelings when he finally confided the source of his shame to her. She just brushed off his feelings and went right back to mulling incessantly over her own fears. I wanted more emotion and less angst. Instead, I was just left feeling that Dom loved Willa much more than she did him and I wasn’t completely satisfied with their relationship. Overall, this book wasn’t quite all the things I’d hoped it would be, but my rating gets rounded up because I did like the way things wrapped up in the end.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book is one of a series and the characters in the earlier books are also in this one so it would probably be helpful to read the first two books, I have not and really had a difficult time connecting with the characters. Dominic and Willa were once engaged and things ended badly between them. They both have secrets and didn’t really understand each other. This book was about how they learned about each other and began to understand not just each other, but themselves. The characters were interesting, the sex was hot, but the misunderstandings and secrets made this one a difficult read for me.

QOTD: Last book you were worried about?

I am always scared and sad when the last book in a series comes out. This one was especially nerve wracking. I love me some second chance - but it can go either way.

THIS BOOK THOUGH - is the gold standard for second chance. Actually dealing with the problems, talking things out, and now just having sex and compromising. Both Dom and Willa have to grow and admit they were BOTH wrong. This is also the gold standard for a slow burn - I was at page 200 and didn't even notice that they hadn't had a love scene - because each page was so enthralling. The slow burn matched the storytelling that was so well done... anyways - I will complete my gush on @corsetandcrown ... but... do yourself a favor and read this book.

ID: A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Leigh on a kindle held by a white woman's hand in front of a gray painted sign.

TL/DR Review
Stars: Five Glittering Perfect Gold Standard Stars
Series: Last Chance Scoundrels - honestly you need to read all three.
POV: dual third
Steam: slow burn that melts, toe curlingly good love scenes.
Tropes: meddling family, second chance, forced proximity, opposites attract, interclass romance
For Fans Of: Crying while turned on
Theme Song: Just to See You Smile by Tim McGraw
Subgenre: historic romance
CW/ TW: references to bloodshed and alcohol abuse on page, references to death of parents and parental neglect, food and financial insecurity

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This is a set up! Dom and Willa realize it is a set up. And yet, these two can't fight the attraction between them. Kieran/Celeste and Finn/Tabitha join Dom & Willa on a remote island for a house party. Shenanigans ensue because this is a risqué gathering. Of course, the couple reunites. But they are together on their own terms, not her father's.

5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for an eARC of this title. All opinions are my own and are honestly given.

In A Rogue’s Rules for Seduction, Lady Willa Ransom and Dominic Kilburn find themselves reunited at a house party one year after Dom jilted Willa at the altar. After initial animosity, their chemistry once again ignites, and Dom and Willa realize their old feelings might not be gone for good. However, when secrets from Dom’s past threaten their future, Dom and Willa have to decide where their hearts truly lie and if there are second chances when it comes to love.

A Rogue’s Rules for Seduction was a fun way to wrap up the Last Chance Scoundrels series, and I’m already sorry to say goodbye to these characters. Initially, I worried that the book might be starting a bit slow for me, but the second half really picked up and stuck the landing. Dom and Willa’s chemistry is palpable, and Leigh does a great job of showing how this couple has learned and grown from their separation and is even stronger as a couple now for having gone through their initial difficulties. I would definitely recommend this series for our historical romance-loving patrons, and this book is a great fit for our physical and digital collections. 4 stars.

The third book in the Last Chance Scoundrels Series, A Rogue's Rules for Seduction is a second chance romance story featuring two MCs with a fair amount of childhood baggage who finally get to know the real person behind the former infatuation.

I had read the first in the series a few years ago and vaguely remembered the characters, but it wasn't critical and this book worked as a standalone.  I did make a note in the Good Girls Guide to Rakes review that is worth repeating here: This title is part of a recent theme of “guides” and instructional type titles that don’t actually mean the MCs are doing anything in the book resembling the title.

I am not a huge second chance romance reader, but I vaguely remember Dom leaving Willa at the altar in the first book so I thought I would give it a whirl.  I have to be honest, even with understanding his backstory at the conclusion and enjoying how Leigh makes it clear their first "chance" at romance was mostly superficial, I am still not clear on why he left her at the altar.  I don't remember clearly how it was presented in the first book, but I felt like the callback to that scene wasn't here.  There also wasn't a ton of callback to the driving force of the series, which is these three former rakehell besties need to get married within a year in order to gain their inheritance.

Lots of readers in other reviews loved this book.  And there is a lot to love.  A house party at a dreary island in the Hebrides for debauchery, a strong and salty heroine who bucks convention and a former dock worker hero who is also brilliant and sensitive.  The first quarter of the book kept me glued trying to figure out where Leigh was going.

Then, it started to slow way down for me.  

There was a funny competitive scene that brought the MCs together and then a forced proximity/one bed scenario that wasn't exactly the most believable but was fun nonetheless.  Despite this, a lot of what was in between was a will they/won't they tension that wasn't really interesting or compelling for me.  By the time Leigh cracked into the intimate scenes (and there was one that was more on the spicy side), I honestly didn't care.  I skimmed it.  And I skimmed the rest of the book.

I think in the setup there was a lot going right.  Leigh does a good job showing why these two probably shouldn't have married at the first but were still right for each other.  Normally, with second chances I feel like the adage "an ex is an ex for a reason" is good soup.  I didn't have that sense with these MCs.  However, his reason (or what I think was his reason) for jilting her was sort of anti-climactic.  It was predictable, and serious, but also sort of understandable given the violence of his surroundings. 

There was also a little angst but to me it gave more of the misunderstanding feels.  So I think that is why I lost interest in the characters.

There were a lot of appearances from the MCs of the first two books which will be satisfying for readers who have stuck with the series from the start.  There are also some other, interesting characters that I would love to read in their own stories.

I think if you enjoy second chance romance, this may ring your bell.  There is good character growth (although it feels like we are coming in on the tail end of it) and many readers adore these MCs.  It also contains some spicy (BDSM) bedroom scenes which some readers will enjoy.

I won't reread, but I would read books about the host or Miss Steele.

I loved this book. It was one of my 5 stars for the year. I was excited for this story and it delivered. I loved Dominic. He was a great hero. I thought the story was wonderful . I would recommend to others in a second.

After the first book I was most anxious to get to this one... sorry Finn and Tabitha I was more interested in Dom and Willa and seeing how they managed to turn things around... and how does this begin? Oh with some brotherly conspiring which is exactly how things went wrong in the first place...

After their disasterous wedding that wasn’t Willa and Dom find themselves trapped on an island at a house party with no way to escape each other. She is determined to get over the hurt he caused and he is desperate to avoid the woman he loves like his life depends on it because he never felt like he deserved someone like her.

Could most things in romances just be solved by having a conversation? Yup... though I suppose this is a different time when such things would never think to do such a thing. And in this case breaking up actually made things better for them in a way because they actually got to know each other for real.

I really liked this book especially since it lacked any unnecessary conflict. Yes Dom had a secret he didn’t want to tell her and their different classes was a bit of a thing but it all worked and made sense. Willa had to learn and grow on her own and make her own decisions. I like a good second chance romance.