The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles

Their romance is a nice opposites attract tale where they may be different, but they still go together. The two of them were great representatives of the mix of smugglers and country gentry in times of tension in England with France. The two connect and are separated only to be reunited under different circumstances. Joss Doomsday is an overworked smuggler that runs the Doomsday smuggling clan. Sir Gareth Inglis, who was abandoned by his father as a child, is a newly appointed baronet in Romney Marsh. It is a fun action-packed historical m/m romance, so it immediately drew me to want to read it. The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman is the first novel in the Doomsday Books series.

It’s a long road from there-full of danger and mysteries to be solved-yet somehow, along the way, this well-mannered gentleman may at last find true love with the least likely of scoundrels. Their reunion is anything but happy and the path forward everything but smooth, yet after the dust settles, neither can stay away. His family is his life…which is why when the all-too-familiar new baronet testifies against Joss’s sister for a hanging offense, Joss acts fast, blackmailing Gareth with the secret of their relationship to force him to recant. Joss Doomsday has run the Doomsday smuggling clan since he was a boy. Bitter at the sudden rejection, Gareth has little time to lick his wounds: his father has died, leaving him the family title, a rambling manor on the remote Romney Marsh…and the den of cutthroats and thieves that make its intricate waterways their home. Even so, he longs for a connection, falling headfirst into a passionate anonymous affair that’s over almost as quickly as it began. Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ CharlesĪbandoned by his father as a small child, Sir Gareth Inglis has grown up prickly, cold, and well-used to disappointment.

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles