In the last book of Eva Leigh's latest trilogy, two people are reunited on an isolated island full of libertine delights! With the boat already gone, a scorned woman and a man in pain must learn how to confront their past if they want any chance of a future together. Full of quippy cameos and mutual heat, Leigh's proven that her atypical historical romances are fantastic for those tired of the same old tropes.

A Rogue's Rules for Seduction shows the best parts of what happens after a second-act breakup. The heavy glances, the brooding, the moments of character growth... With so much tension in each chapter, I was surprised my Kindle didn't burst into flames! Willa and Dom have so much baggage that they realistically learn how to shift through, as well as Dom lets go of the perfect image he had of her and accepts the complex woman who still has his heart. I could not stop reading because while the sex scenes were excellent (a refreshing use of blunt language instead of flowery metaphors for anatomy), the emotional reconciliation had me at the edge of my seat.

Leigh's novels are never without a healthy amount of critique toward the genre and period. Dom regularly eschews what's considered traditional for the aristocracy, the women fulfilling spaces other than wife and lover. When the climax arrives, a pointed discussion about marriage and the inheritance held over Dom's head, readers will be relieved about the characters' agency.

A well-rounded ending full of emotion and heart!

NetGalley provided a copy. All opinions are my own.

4.25/5. Releases 4/25/2023.

For when you're vibing with... Second chance romance, capital g Groveling, big men who just don't feel like they're good enough, and some seriously hot sex scenes.

Dom and Will were seemingly perfect for each other--until he left her at the altar. A year later, the two haven't even spoken, despite Dom's sister marrying Willa's brother. But at a house party on a secluded island, Willa and Dom have been unexpectedly thrown together by their friends--and are forced to confront not only their feelings for each other, but why Dom really left.

Holy shit. This is a hot book, especially by traditionally published romance standards. But it's also a fun and very emotionally soft love story. They go hard between the sheets but then you're like "awww", which is really something that I personally love.

Quick Takes:

--Eva Leigh's Last Chance Scoundrels series is uniformly good. I'd recommend each book, and they're all hot, too. But it's done a great thing: it's gotten better with each book, and it's gotten hotter with each book. It started with Dom leaving Willa on their wedding day, and it ends with their romance. That's how you fucking do it. Well done.

--There's a challenge to this story. Dom did a really shitty thing, and you have to believe in this romance taking place over the course of several days, but also over the course of all this time and courtship we really don't see. This isn't a book with true flashbacks. Yet, Eva Leigh sells it because Dom and Will have such real, pain-laced chemistry, and because they're both so lovable as individuals. He's a big guy who's had all the training and money he needs to hide his lower class origins, but still can't (and doesn't really want to) conceal who he actually is. She's an English rose on the surface, with a dirty streak and a desire to be known and loved for her true self. They clearly deeply love and value each other, not just on a romantic level but as friends--they just need to get to the point where he feels worthy and she believes in and trusts him again.

--If you like a big guy/firebrand girl who has him wrapped around her finger dynamic... this is it. Willa is so fucking strong and bold and outspoken, without ever giving way to NLOG syndrome, due to her real pain and vulnerability. Dom is like... a fucking mess of a man. Hulking and dominant one minute, and my fucking cinnamon apple the next. There's a moment towards the end where he is just so precious I.... couldn't handle it. However, another aspect I loved of this book is that it very explicitly calls out that Dom has put Willa on a pedestal, and she'd very much like to be touched and treated like a real woman. What a great thing to see confronted in romance.

--This is a pretty quick and straightforward story, and I think that it is done in that respect, almost perfectly. But I will say that, though I'm not surprised about The Thing... I do think it could've been a bit twistier. That being said, it's not a big deal and doesn't detract from the story in a big way at all. The point here is really not plot (and not every romance novel should have a huge plot beyond the love story) it's feelings.

--I will say that I also absolutely love a house party historical, and this is a great one. They're on an island, they can't escape, there are all these lush people doing sexy things and getting up to mischief. I'm fucking for it. More of this! The setting also allows Leigh to really lean into the Parent Trap vibes of it all. Oh no, we need two people to do this sexy thing together. Who could possibly do it???

The Sex Stuff:

Uh. Yeah. This is hot. Dom and Willa are both switches, and Leigh uses that to full effect, with some light bondage, a little bit of dominance and submission on both sides, blindfolds, riding crops, that one thing you practically NEVER see in (het, trad) historicals. And it's all done in a way that totally serves their relationship. I loved how unabashedly, unashamedly horny Willa was, and I loved how much Dom loved that side of her. This is a book wherein two people who have been wanting to rip each other's clothes off since they met finally get to do that, and you feel it.

One of the things I really loved in terms of "sex as character" in this was a moment in which Dom has Done An Act and realizes that he could potentially have visible physical scars left over later. And he wants that. Because he got those scars serving her, they're a remnant of her pleasure, her ownership of him. That.... is some good fucking shit right there.

This is a great finish to the series, and perhaps my favorite Eva Leigh book yet. I feel like she put a lot of work and creativity into this, and it was immensely satisfying to see her do her thing.

Thanks to Netgalley and Avon for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

"Perhaps that's what this time on Mr. Longbridge's island is for... Listening, truly listening, to your heart."

After waiting a long time for their story, Dom and Willa finally get the complex and sweet resolution they deserve.

It makes sense this book is so good. Dom and Willa have been captivating since they broke up three books ago. And there is some deep diving into Willa and Dom's feelings, their trauma. It's insightful and makes the characters feel fleshed out.
Dom loves her so absolutely and completely, he has such faith that she can do anything. Willa is a fierce woman coming into her own. Overall I love them as a couple.
This book is absolutely rife with callbacks from previous books (some I have read, some I haven't). I just love seeing previous couples happy!
The third act does drag a bit. There were a few spots that just felt off or a little cringey to me. Overall though I would recommend it. There's a hand flex! I repeat, we have a hand flex! Dom also reads AND quotes Jane Austen! So, if you were on the fence about reading this, that enough is a good reason to pick it up!

Star Rating: 3/5
Tropes: Class differences, second chance
CW: Abandonment, death, violence, murder

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Hello Eva Leigh!?!? I hadn't read one of her books before, so in order to get the full effect of A Rouge's Rules for Seduction, I read the first book in the series, A Good Girl's Guide to Rakes. Let me tell you, Eva knows how to do tension! It nearly crackles is both of those books!

First, I highly recommend reading the first book in the series before reading this one. I just don't think it can stand on its own.

Second, did these two work hard for their HEA!?!

Summary: Dom left Willa at the altar on Book 1, even though he loves her beyond reason. Will fortifies her heart and takes a year tour of the Continent. Now she's back, and they both find themselves at the same scandalous house party.....in Scotland... on an island....with no way to leave...surrounded by their best friends/family.

I loved the tension, it was bananas. I loved the appearance of her brothers and their wives. It was all around a great story. The reason I didnt give it 5 stars is because after a while, Willa's reasons for not running into Dom's massive arms were dumb. He had a perfectly good reason for why he made his mistakes. he confesses to Willa, both his deepest secrets/fears, AND that he only wants to be with her. STILL, she's like "I'm scared"? I dont buy it.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is an extremely well written 2nd chance at redemption and love book.

Willa and Dom have histories both separately and together. Can they work their way through the emotions, hurts and betrayals? Do they want to?

A Rogue's Rules for Seduction is book 3 in the Last Chance Scoundrels series and while it may give a bit more background on the characters I don't feel it is absolutely necessary to read this series in order.
Ms. Leigh does an outstanding job of giving us the backstory of Willa and Dom while they work out feelings so we have an in depth knowledge as to what happened to make them the people they were when they met and through to when they meet again to find themselves stranded at a private island house party in the Hebrides at the start of this book.


I would definitely recommend this book, series and author. I enjoy reading books by Eva Leigh and found the premise of stranded at an island house party unique.

Thank-you to Avon, Harper Voyager and NetGalley for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

#ARoguesRulesforSeduction #NetGalley

4.5 stars rounded up

This is how you do enemies-to-lovers second chance romance!

We have Lady Willa, who was devastated when her betrothed, Dom, left her at the altar one year earlier. She’s understandably angry, still deeply hurt, and feeling inadequate.

We have Dom, a former dockworker (with the fabulous big braw muscles to prove it) now a man of wealth due to his father’s successful business enterprise. Filled with shame and regret for hurting Willa, feeling unworthy, and carrying deep pain because of something in his past.

When the story opens, various characters are arriving at a remote Scottish isle for a house party. Unbeknownst to both Dom and Willa, they’ve been tricked into attending the party by her brothers (his best friends), in the hopes they will reconcile. Each is stunned to find the other at the manor. She’s furious; he’s unhappy and lost.

What I liked:

Forced Proximity
Dom and Willa initially tried to avoid one another but fate (and their host, the intriguing Longbridge) kept pushing them together. I love when the MCs have a lot of page time together. Who wants to read an HR where the main characters spend huge chunks of time apart?

Some of Longbridge’s activities for his guests seemed mere filler, but others were by turns funny and hot, and a wonderful way to help forge a connection between Dom and Willa, and allow them to let their guards down and be real.

Character Growth
This is where the story really shined for me. The more time Dom and Willa spent together, the more intense their attraction. Physical, oh most definitely. But the attraction went deeper. They were drawn together again and again as if one was steel and the other a magnet. And each time they were drawn together, they slowly peeled away the layers and got to know each other. It was very eye-opening for both to realize that they never really knew each other while courting. They were enamored with the idea of who the other was, when in reality they barely skimmed the surface.

“They knew each other now – not as the illusions they had each imagined and created, but as flawed and beautiful beings.”

Part of the character growth involved not only getting to know one another, but also self discovery.
Dom’s feelings of shame for hurting Willa, feeling an unworthy brute because of his background and a terrible regret he carried. Willa, struggling with the emotional pain and vulnerability inherent in letting go of old ways of thinking, and trying to find the courage to let go of her fears and move forward. The complex, swirling emotions both between them and within them were beautifully written and just so raw and intense and messy. And they dealt with these feelings, talked about them, owned them.

The Slow Burn
There, I said it. I’m an early-and-often girl and slow burn is not my jam. In this case it worked perfectly, though, and was necessary to stay true to their history and fears. When they finally gave in, damn but it was incredibly hot. Which leads us to…

The Chemistry/Sexy Payoff
Oh, my friends, I want a Dom of my own. And I want to be stranded with him at a remote cabin on the island, during a storm. All the pent up lust, longing and feels were unleashed like the fierce storm raging outside and they burned for each other. Delicious and raw and intense and I was there for it. So, so hot… Dom’s filthy dirty mouth (Willa too!), the good girl praise, Dom allowing Willa to bind his wrists and have her way with him, oh my. And when Dom blindfolded her and told her to kneel I thought I’d die from the sheer hotness.

What Didn’t Work For Me:

The pacing got bogged down mid-way through the story; the push/pull between Dom and Willa, interspersed with yet another party game, started to feel repetitive and tiresome. There was a time the story didn’t quite hold my interest and I considered giving three and a half stars, but the gorgeously nuanced character growth, believable and relatable angst, incredible passion and deep, beautifully written emotion would not allow me to give any less than four and a half well-deserved stars.

Among true love’s many gifts are redemption, healing, and hope. Rarely have I read a story where the two main characters were so deserving of their happily ever after.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, Avon and Harper Voyager, for the eARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is a 2nd chance at love and redemption. Dominic left Willa at the altar and to make matter worse for her humiliation her brother are still friends with him. They avoid each other until family and friends decide to get them together to resolve their issues. Dom must work thru his past and how he hurt Willa. Willa needs to deal with her emotions, and can she forgive or trust him again. The supporting characters were enjoyable and from previous books in series. This book was enjoyable and kept your interest. I am familiar with this author and always enjoyed her books. I did read her other books in this series but out of order. So I had the background of the players. However, this book can be read as a standalone but better in the series. I would recommend this to other people because this author is good and worth getting to know.


**I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

A Rogue’s Rules for Seduction
by Eva Leigh
⭐️ ⭐️

I requested this book because the blurb caught my attention and I thought it might be a fun, light read. It definitely started that way, but soon the story got stuck into a back and forth of yearning for each other while one was still fighting hurt and anger and the other feeling awful for causing the hurt and believing the other will never forgive them. And just when you think the story is going to move forward because they start to learn about each other, a new back and forth of misunderstanding starts up.

There just didn’t seem to be much or any plot most of the book and what was happening left me struggling to stay interested in the story.

Thank you to #NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Forced together at a house party on an island without regular transportation off and on, Willa and Dom are in one another's orbit for the first time since Dom called off their engagement.

I really appreciate a good second chance romance and this one! I loved it!!! Dom and Willa were sooooo good together and the slow burn in this was perfect.

- Second chance romance
- Historical romance series
- Forced proximity
- Super slow burn
- Open door sex scenes of varying spice levels

Unaware that this is the third book of a series, I started reading - this reads as a stand-alone just fine. But I was so disappointed that I didn’t read the prior two first, I had to stop reading this one to go and listen to the first two so I’d really feel this one (I'm glad I did!).

Recommended - but try to not make the same mistake I did - read the first two series titles first 😊

This is a series I'll reread and listen to on audio.



Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for the DRC!

Every so often you eagerly anticipate a book with your favorite trope, and the book not only exceeds your expectation, but also solidifies your love for the said trope—A Rogue’s Rules for Seduction is that book for me. Eva Leigh scores a hattrick of hit books in her Last Chance Scoundrels series. If you love emotional, unabashedly sexy second chance romance, with forward thinking protagonists and just the perfect level of tension, pining, and groveling—do not miss this book!

Heartbroken, humiliated, and abandoned at the altar, Lady Willa Ransome escapes to the continent to mitigate the scandal and nurse her pride and internal wounds. A year later she returns, but to her dismay, her meddling siblings engineer for her to be stuck on an island with the very man she loathes. Plagued by guilt and shame, Dominic Kilburn agrees to attend a house party on a remote island, far away from reality and Willa’s memories. Dom is convinced he made the right decision by freeing Willa because he’s harboring a shocking secret. Yet, her strength, her suffering, and her spirit only increase his hunger for her. With undeniable attraction and feelings looming inside them, would it be possible for a second chance and redemption?

This is my favorite of the series. I love everything about this book. It is deliciously and gloriously hot! However, I am more of a person who revel in emotional connection, honest communication, heartfelt gestures, tender moments between characters, AND groveling, especially, in second chance romance. This book delivers on those items and how! It is beautiful to read Dom and Willa slowly open up to each other and be vulnerable. They begin to see each other in a new light. I love how they comfort and validate each other. I also adore Dom’s endearments for Willa. The secondary characters were delightful, too. Furthermore, I want to mention the friendship between Dom, Finn, and Kieran. It screams of non-toxic masculinity and is wonderful to read. Finally, bonus points for the Persuasion nod.

Gosh, I LOVE second chance romance! Thank you for this! Adding this to my favorite second chance re-read list. I can’t wait for the audiobook.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Avon for the e-ARC. This is my honest review.

Dominic Kilburn left Lady Willa Ransom at the altar and a year later Willa wants to move on with her life, so she accepts an invitation to a house party. Dom bolted because secrets from his past surfaced right before his wedding. Later Dom heads to a friend’s estate and one of the other guests is Willa.

This is third in a series and I’d recommend reading them in order. I haven’t read the others and some plot points at the end took me by surprise. I spent too long wondering why the heroes from the other books helped the hero of this book escape his wedding to THEIR SISTER. Nobody in this family talks, I guess? You can follow the romance, but maybe the buildup is better if you’ve read the others.

The “I’m not good enough” angle was a let down for me, and so was the “wow sex is fun so I’ll forgive you for leaving me at the altar.” I needed more plot. But if you’re a second chance romance, forced proximity fan and love porn without plot, read this one.

Thank you to Netgally and Avon Pub for this earc

I'm going to start with the fact that the first 50% and last 50% were written by different authors for different books. Let me explain

I was really much enjoying the first 50%: the second chance romance with forced proximity and lost steamy looks. Sounds perfect right? We saw how much both Dom and Willa were suffering in previous books and I was very interested to find out what actually happened. But then from one page to the other, all the tension and conversations basically went away and all we got was just smut? Yes, some hot smut but after all the emotional build up, I really wanted to see more of how these two will figure out how to be together and not just in bed. Also what’s with random BDSM scene?

Overall, an easy read you can probably finish in one sitting but if you’re looking for deep and meaningful, this is not the one

This was outstanding and probably one of my favorite historical romances I’ve read all year! Wow I can’t stop thinking about it. It was angsty, it had GROVELING!!! It was sexy as hell! I could go on and on and on. I already want to go back and reread it. So so so good!!!

This was a fun trilogy and I like Dom and Willa second best among all the couples. (It's hard to surpass Finn and Tabitha.) I like Willa a lot, I just wish she had made Dom work for it more emotionally.

Thank you to NetGalley, Avon, and the author for the eARC in exchange for my review.

A Rogue’s Rules for Seduction is one of those books that starts off well but my interest fades the more I read. I wanted to like this book, and I did like the first half. Sadly though, as the book went on it just got kinda meh.

I like smut as much as the next girl but, this book basically just became nothing but mediocrely written sex. I just lost all interest. It reminds me of the kinda smut your grandma would want to read (but not a spunky fun grandma).

Overall, it needed more of the plot. The whole “wow we had sex for the first time and now I forgive you for leaving me at the altar” thing just didn’t do it for me.

A perfect ending to this delightful trilogy! Since the first book, I've wanted Dom and Willa to reconcile and this book brings them back together so well. After almost a year apart, they find themselves learning new things about one another and falling in love for all the right reasons. A beautiful depiction of how people grow and change over time and sometimes that takes being apart. This series is so fabulously spicy and the characters are marvelous. Bravo to Eva Leigh for this trio of men and their lady loves!

This was a special second-chance romance featuring an errant bridegroom, Dom Kilburn, and the woman he left at the altar nearly a year ago, Willa Ransom. (Readers of the previous two books in this series know that Dom jilting Willa on her wedding day precipitated the romances featured in The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes and How the Wallflower was Won.)

After Dom abandoned Willa, she took off for the Continent for an extended tour and he was gruff and miserable through the first two books of the series. He clearly did not miss out on their wedding day because he did not care, something that Willa's brothers--Kieran and Finn, who had helped Dom jilt her--recognized in his dour moods. They and their wives conspire to bring Dom and Willa together at a remote house party in Scotland where they are trapped for a few weeks in one another's company.

Willa is furious. Dom is repentant and willing to give her space. Yet as the circle one another in the early days of the house party, they realize that they would not have been a good fit a year ago and understood each other only superficially because they are both so guarded. As they learn more about each's others pasts and learn to trust another, a future together once again seems possible.

One of the most interesting parts of this story is how the sexual relationship between Willa and Dom begins to reflect the emotional bonds and trust they are building. This made the whole story feel cohesive, even the passionate interludes.

This was a good way to wrap up the series, and I think it will feel more meaningful to those who have already read the first two books. Kieran & Celeste and Finn & Tabitha appear throughout, and because we begin bang at the moment of Willa and Dom's heated reunion, the story will work best for readers who understand the slow build to this moment.

I’ve been eagerly awaiting to get the tea on what happened between Willa & Dom and this tender second-chance romance did not disappoint.

After successfully avoiding one another after he jilted her at the altar one year ago, both Willa and Dom are dismayed to find their siblings have conspired to get them both to attend an unconventional house party away from the prying eyes of the judgmental ton. Dom still loves Willa but thinks he can never be the man she needs and Willa holds lots of anger and unresolved hurt from the abrupt end of their relationship.

I loved the longing on both sides in the first half of this book, but their eventual reunion and resolution of the imagined conflict that separated them felt rushed. We got to see a lot of how Dom spent his time after the wedding that never happened through the first two books of this series, I would have loved to see more of Willa’s travels through this book. I also felt like the other Ransome brothers and their wives got reduced to two-dimensional characters in this book, I would have loved to see more of the four personalities that sparkled in the first two books.

But I truly loved the growth and healing that came from both of them during their time apart and I think this was a great way to end the series. Would have loved a bonus epilogue a bit into the future to tie up all three couples’ stories but maybe we will get more of these characters in the future because I loved them all!

This was the book we’ve been waiting for this whole series! The pay off was worth it, this was very well done . Dom was great, brooding and remorseful, Willa was fabulous in her anger and hurt feelings. Watching the meddling brothers was great, and the two of them try to deny their feelings was great. Well paced and very hot. My only real critique was the sex scenes went too extreme too fast. Willa went from nothing to bondage in about a chapter and it seemed a fast evolution to me.

This is *such* a good Second Chance Romance - Willa and Dom’s split featured in a previous book in the series, and Dom’s presence in those previous books showed how heartbroken and repentant he was. But, Eva Leigh (and Willa!) don’t make it easy for him. Even as his reasons for being a runaway groom are explained and apologized for, Dom and Willa both realize that the split led each of them to grow as individuals and learn even better what to love and value in each other.
Also: the book is hot, has funny meddling siblings, and features the hero groveling- what else do you need to know?
Thanks NetGalley for ARC!