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I checked out the Rake too because I’m lazy during the lockdown. These two books brought to my mind a short story by ACD also set in the Regency Era, The Fall of Lord Barrymore. It’s about the rivalry between two socialites Sir Charles Tregellis and Lord Barrymore, who hated each other’s guts. Tregellis was a flamboyant fashionista, and one day was visited by a nephew, as flamboyant and obnoxious, who had been sent down from Oxford and offered the uncle to rid him of his rival by making the rival the laughingstock of the society. Well, it’s a fun story which involves cross dressing and boxing (simultaneously!), and after Cat Sebastian I wish there was a book about Tregellis/Barrymore enemies to lovers, and another book about his nephew and the nephew’s pal XD