His wicked propositions boggle her virginal heart but stir her womanly passions.
Little does she know that her life is about to be turned inside out: she discovers that Mick is a virile, handsome, incorrigible man. Intrigued by the subject's accent and eager to exact some personal revenge, Edwina agrees to the wager. She becomes so successful that twin lords Emile and Jeremy Lamont challenge her to turn Mick Tremore, an ill-mannered, uncouth Cornish rat catcher, into a gentleman and pass him off as a viscount at her cousin's annual society ball.
To support herself, Edwina gives elocution and deportment classes to country folk and foreigners eager to enter polite society. Now he's turned his energy toward winning her, the most desirable and the least attainable woman he knows and Coco's afraid James may find his way past the thorns that have so long protected her from the world, and awaken her slumbering heart with just one kiss.When her father dies, Lady Edwina Bollash is ousted from her ancestral home in Regency London by her greedy cousin, the new Duke of Arles. He's exactly the man that Coco might have dreamed about when she was young: a tall, fair hero with a charming smile. Back in England with a treasure of gold from his adventures, newly knighted by Queen Victoria herself, and feted everywhere, the handsome explorer has the world at his feet. The men who came to adore her, fought to conquer her and learn her mysteries, made her the toast of London, but none were able to rouse her passions.īut that hard taught lesson is about to unravel because of Sir James Stoker. A slender beauty with alluring eyes, she built impregnable defenses around her emotions. Once, a long time ago, Coco Wild learned to never allow a man's kiss to move her, for that way led to her downfall. It was he who was smitten-while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart-unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.ġ996-97 RT Reviewers' Choice - Turn-of-the-Century Historical Romance For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancee's ship-and seduce the young chit in utter darkness.
Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous cad-a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless affair with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day. and bored-which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant.
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