EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 15, 1780 Berkeley Square, London “M’lord! Wait!” “Vickers! Did you come to terms with your mother already? So that you may come to terms with me?” Celia did not think she could despise Judas’s façade Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 15, 1780 Berkeley Square, London “You’re doing it up a bit too brown, Unk,” Sandy muttered to Elliott once he had finished flirting his way around the room. “I should say so,” Niall agreed, sipping at Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 14, 1780 Rathbone House Mayfair, London Do you understand the phrase ‘engine of love assaults’? For the first time in a week, Celia had reason to smile. If she had not been so very hungry and tired, so Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 14, 1780 Mayfair, London Was he so desperate for relief from this charade that he would rather spend the evening in the garden mindlessly lecturing the Honourable Miss Simpleton than go inside? No. She reminded Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 14, 1780 Mayfair, London Celia stood alone on the edge of the ballroom, waiting for Rear-Admiral Lord Rathbone to bring her the cup of lemonade she’d expressed a desire for. It wasn’t an idle desire, either: Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 6, 1780 Grosvenor Square, London “It’s done,” Admiral Lord Hylton said tightly, staring over Elliott’s head, out the window of his library to the sun-drenched May day. “I was fortunate in Covarrubias. I Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 3, 1780 Casa de Covarrubias Mayfair, London She wept into Rafael’s bare chest that night, and the years fell away. I swear to God I don’t know what to do with you, Lass.          Ach, don’t look Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 3, 1780 Grosvenor Square, London Admiral Lord Hylton had aged so badly since Celia had last seen him, she could not control her gasp. “My lord,” the butler intoned from his position at Celia’s side in the Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 2, 1780 Rathbone House Mayfair, London “Marianne, I understand and respect your concerns,” Marquess Rathbone said as he paced in front of Celia and her mother, seated comfortably in the library Celia had not Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 1, 1780 Berkeley Square, London Elliott had taken Covarrubias at his word, and so was shocked when the man stalked out of the ballroom not a moment after he had told Elliott to bugger off. Since there were five Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   May 1, 1780 Berkeley Square, London The soprano’s last notes hung over the inhabitants of the ballroom like a noxious fog. What was worse, the woman was performing the very opera that had defeated seventeen-year-old Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   April 29, 1780 Mélisande Gables Berkeley Square, London “There is no way in hell I’ll wed that woman,” Elliott snarled at his brother as he stormed into his library after having divested himself of that ridiculous Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   April 29, 1780 Grosvenor Square, London Celia saw Lord Tavendish as soon as he entered the ballroom, prancing like an overly decorated mare on parade. His wig was two feet high and powdered pure white, as was his face, Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   April 29, 1780 Mélisande Gables Berkeley Square, London I will give it some thought, Admiral, but your daughter is nigh thirty and I need a countess who has better childbearing odds. I understand your position, Read more [...]

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   April 28, 1780 Rathbone House Mayfair, London Celia did not know quite how she expected Woman to act after two months aboard a privateer vessel after having been lashed with a cat and set to cleaning up after one hundred Read more [...]