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The
spirited Catherine Malboeuf has just arrived in England to reclaim her
ancestral home, Walsley Manor, and a valuable missing heirloom. Nicholas Adair,
the attractive and frustratingly inflexible Duke of Boulstridge, however, is
quite unwilling to sell the estate back to Catherine. Unless, of course, she
accepts a small wager...
Nick
will sell Walsley Manor if--and only if--Catherine secures an offer of marriage
from an eligible member of the ton before the end of the London season.
Of
course, Nick is certain he'll win. After all, no proper gentleman would ever
marry a woman who conceals a cutlass in her skirts. Yet something about
Catherine's unconventional disposition seems to ignite a need deep inside him.
A need that won't just cost him the wager, but the very heart he swore to never
give away...
He ought
not to have let her take the journal. It wasn’t appropriate reading material
for an innocent. “If you like, I will reread the journal and make note of all
of your great-grandmother’s…acquaintances so we can narrow down the
possibilities.”
She
clasped the journal to her chest. “Good heavens, no. I shall do it.”
“Why?”
“I would
never be able to look you in the eye again knowing that you had read about
her…exploits.”
“Catherine.”
She cast a startled glance at him. Stifling the laughter threatening to erupt,
he said, “I’ve already read the journal. There is nothing in there with which I
am not already familiar.”
Casting
her eyes downward, she said, “Well, there is much with which I am unfamiliar.”
Laughter
burst forth from him, refusing to be contained. “Well I certainly hope so. It
is not appropriate reading material for you. Give it back to me, and I will
make a list of everyone mentioned in the journal. We must be thorough.” Casting
his eyes toward the spire of a church in the distance, he attempted to dispel
the images of Catherine reenacting her great grandmother’s escapades with him.
His imagination was very thorough. Too thorough.
Ally lives in Texas and is convinced her house is shrinking,
possibly because she shares it with three kids, four dogs, a cat, a rabbit, and
several reptiles. Oh, and her husband.
She likes to curse in Russian and spends most of her spare time letting
dogs in and out of the house and shuttling kids around. She writes historical
romance set in Regency England and Imperial Russia.
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Liked the synopsis and also the excerpt! Thanks for sharing.
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