A LADY'S WORST NIGHTMARE Disappointed by her first London Season, Margaret Somerley takes refuge at the Earl of Haddon's country estate. In the library one evening, she comes upon a dashing thief as he steals a cache of secret government papers... and he brazenly abducts Margaret as well. Soon t...
that you should be forced to have that disagreeable man all to yourself. But I hope you will not mind it. . . . and there is no occasion for talking to him, except just now and then. So, do not put yourself to inconvenience.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Madame Girard...
The mare leaned her head over the gate, whickering softly, and allowed her ears to be scratched. Alexander's grip tightened on the feed pails he carried. There might be nothing in it except a girl's fondness for her horse, or it might be Miss Brinsby's way of asserting her mastery of the situatio...
“Sir, wot happened?” “A block of chimney pots tumbled from the upper roof. Let’s go down. Is anyone hurt below?” Dav moved deliberately to the stairs. Adam blocked his path. “You’re not hurt?” “No. The roof isn’t safe, however; don’t go out there.” Below in the drive, his brothers had gathered wi...
Farre was content to follow Nick at a distance, for their talk had set him thinking once again about a problem that appeared to have no solution. How was he to get the boy out among his own kind? The boy was free of Haverly after ten years a virtual prisoner there, but the...