40294 words long. enNoveltext/Romance @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Chapter Nine “Can I go riding tomorrow, Caitlin?” Elizabeth pressed her small body into Caitlin’s side. “I don’t see why not, darling. Your ankle is so much better now. You and William can ride your...
32128 words long. enNovellatext/Romance/Historical Fiction @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } –––––––––––— How To Tame a Rake by Maggi Andersen –––––––––––— Romance/Historical Fiction New Concepts Publishing www.newconceptspublishing.com Copyright ©2009 by Maggi Andersen...
Gazing into the mirror, he dabbed at his chin with the towel. He’d cut himself shaving. He’d put off his London manservant and was now reduced to living like a serf. He had lost almost everything in that last card game. Now he didn’t have a high enough stake to enter another. Not until he’d retur...
Georgie asked, as he and his brother lay on their backs in the orchard, eating apples. “But you’ll be the Earl of Debenham,” Nicholas said, spitting out a seed. “You won’t need to. But I shall, I suppose.” “You’ll be all right. You have the brains. ...
When she studied herself in the mirror, she seemed a different person, her head swimming with new information. For the last sennight, she’d dined with the earl and his sister every evening, where she was taught table manners. “One must never shout down the table,” Lady Bea...
Not so Guy. He discussed Horatia’s dowry and the marriage settlement with her father in the library. That done, he and her father shared a joke while discussing salmon fishing and crop rotation. A good deal of bonhomie and laughter emerged from the library along with the smoke. Guy prepared to ri...
Several weeks passed with no sign of them returning until one bitterly cold evening when the light reappeared. Churning with anxiety that Blythe might see it too, she watched the lantern’s procession through the skeletal tree branches, its reflection joining with the moon’s to dance over the lake...
Baxendale’s letters to him had been encouraging, an endorsement of sorts. His last one mentioned that news had reached him of the doubt over Robin’s title. Without putting it in so many words, Charity’s father had hinted that Robin was welcome to press his suit whatever the outcome. Robin had tak...
One was sent off to Bath with a servant and one to Lord and Lady Charlesworth in London to alert them to Merry’s whereabouts. As Merry had brought very few clothes with her, Charity took her to her chamber to find her something suitable until her clothes arrived, as requested in the letter. Merry...
But this Christmas, with her niece, Althea, absent from London, the empty corridors of Catherine’s manor house in Hampstead echoed under her feet. For some reason, she had been restless since she’d returned from a sojourn on the Continent. Catherine had long since come to terms with the passing o...
He didn’t take to the woman, thought her sour-faced, but he would not rush to judge her. Mrs. Crisp seemed competent to steer Sophie safely through her first introduction to society, with all that entailed. Sophie’s pitiful amount of baggage arrived, and she and the widow were eased into his hous...
“Heavens, look at the time. We must go.” Faith had not returned from her walk. After inspecting Charity’s latest painting and hearing Mercy’s latest remedy for toothache, Vaughn and Sibella took their leave. They mounted their horses. “Faith’s been gone a long time.” Vaughn frowned. “I’ll ride ou...