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It was a hell of a night for an elopement.
Alec blinked.
The sofa was damned uncomfortable. Alec sat up and rubbed…
“You don’t look like a man who has just donned…
The solicitor examined the marriage license, his long nose flaring…
“I said I do not wish to see any visitors,”…
Boxes upon boxes covered the foyer, some stacked so high…
With a muffled curse, Alec broke the embrace and thrust…
Julia shut the door to her chamber and leaned against…
Julia pulled out her last remaining pence and placed them…
“Edmund!” Maddie thumped her cane on the carriage floor. “Wake…
Alec blinked fuzzily at Burroughs’ long white nightrail. “Why in…
Julia scooped up her bonnet from the side table and…
London’s bawdiest slum rang day and night with the sounds…
An ear-splitting scream emanated from the upstairs window of Hunterston…
To say that no one recognized Julia in her new…
Two weeks after the rout, the Dowager Duchess of Roth…
Julia hurried to her waiting carriage, a leatherbound ledger tucked…
Julia sat at Alec’s large mahogany desk and opened the…
His face pinched with disapproval, Chilton replaced the stack of…
At Lady Birlington’s instigation, Julia had invited as many couples…
It was almost an hour before Julia heard Alec’s tread…
Alec woke to the sounds of the street. Carriages rattled…
“Come away from the window,” Maddie ordered. “It is rude…
Dawn was just breaking when Alec let himself into Hunterston…
“As pleasant as the day is, I suppose we’re not…
As Maddie had predicted, the Dowager Duchess of Roth was…
Julia leaned forward and squinted at the portrait. “I thought…
“There you are.” Lucien’s voice came from the balcony steps.
“My, my. What a charming tableau.” Nick’s voice rang cold…
Sunlight warmed the early spring grass at Hyde Park, warming…