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HTML:The first book in the Carsington Family series from award-winning romance author Loretta Chase!
Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didnâ??t love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshireâ??in winter!â??where he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as heâ??and maddeningly irresistible.
Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble. The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive, oversensitive and over-bright aristocrat reminding her she has a heartâ??not to mention a body he claims is so unstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.
Could the situation be any worse? And why does something that seems so wrong feel so… (plus d'informations)
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The Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed.
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'If I could have run, I'd have run away screaming, like a girl," Alistair said, his heart lightening.
'I would have been right behind you,' Gordy said, 'screaming louder and at much higher pitch. I have not your manly basso, you know.'
"He longed to tear the bonnet from her head, hack it to shreds, throw it down, and stomp on it, then hurl it into the fire - and by the way, have the milliner pilloried for making it in the first place."
"'Lavender,' he said in martyred tones. 'It is a gift, a veritable gift, I vow. A rare knack for finding - among a collection of gowns so elegant that even Parisians must weep with envy - the one that turns your complexion grey.'"
For that moment, Alistair didn't know anything else, even his name, until she spoke it. "Mr. Carsington," she said, and her voice was clear and cool with a trace of a whisper in it. Hair: sunrise. Eyes: dusk. Voice: night. "I am Mirabel Oldridge," the night-voice went on. Mirabel. It meant wonderful. And she was truly - Alistair caught himself in the nick of time, before his brain disintegrated. No poetry, he told himself. No castles in the air. He was here on business and must not forget it. He could not allow his thoughts to linger, even for an instant, upon any woman...no matter how lovely her skin or how warm her smile, like the first warmth of spring after a long, dark winter... No poetry. He must view her as - as a piece of furniture. He must.
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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The first book in the Carsington Family series from award-winning romance author Loretta Chase!
Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didnâ??t love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshireâ??in winter!â??where he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as heâ??and maddeningly irresistible.
Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble. The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive, oversensitive and over-bright aristocrat reminding her she has a heartâ??not to mention a body he claims is so unstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.
Could the situation be any worse? And why does something that seems so wrong feel so
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