By Kimberly Logan
Lady Maura Daventry has been pressured to suffer the condemnation and whispered hypothesis of society ever because the homicide of her scandalous mom. but if Maura inadvertently discovers that the inaccurate individual could have been held accountable for the crime, she units out to discover solutions through teaming up with Gabriel Sutcliffe, Earl of Hawksley, the only guy who may possibly turn out to be a hazard to her weak middle: the devilishly good-looking and dangerously seductive son of the very guy as soon as accused of her mother's death...
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Now all she had to do was find something, anything, that contained a sample of the viscount’s handwriting. Once she compared it to the note in the pocket of her cloak, she would know for certain whether her newly awakened suspicions were correct. Crossing the Oriental rug to the desk, she sifted through the items that littered its polished surface. An inkwell, pens and nibs, some pieces of correspondence from the family solicitor, but nothing that looked as if it had been written by the viscount himself.
Not now. She had a more important task to tend to. Though Violet had promised that she would do her best to keep Lord Lanscombe busy, there was still little time to tarry. Drawing her cloak more closely around her, Maura peered about, straining in the dim light of the few flickering sconces to make out the details of her surroundings. A long, narrow hallway stretched out before her, both sides of the passage lined with closed doors. According to Violet, the viscount’s study should be just up ahead on the left, through the archway at the very end.
His heart gave a jolt, and with a chilling sense of foreboding, he glanced back at the spot where Lady Maura had been standing just minutes ago. What in blazes had the little minx gotten herself into now? Chapter 4 nm “I know what I long for can never be. Philip is the son of a marquis and will be expected to marry well. ” From the diary of Elise Marchand, June 8, 1794 I t was long after midnight when Maura, dressed in her nightclothes and with her face scrubbed clean of makeup, tiptoed into her father’s chamber and seated herself in the chair next to his bed, taking great care not to make any noise that might wake him from his healing slumber.