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MARGARET MCPHEE loves to use her imagination—an essential requirement for a scientist. However, when she realised that her imagination was inspired more by the historical romances she loves to read rather than by her experiments, she decided to put the stories down on paper. She has since left her scientific life behind and enjoys cycling in the Scottish countryside, tea and cakes.
A Regency Captain’s Prize
The Captain’s Forbidden Miss
His Mask of Retribution
Margaret McPhee
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Margaret McPhee
Central Portugal—31 October 1810
High up in the deserted village of Telemos in the mountains north of Punhete, Josephine Mallington was desperately trying to staunch the young rifleman’s bleeding when the French began their charge. She stayed where she was, kneeling by the soldier on the dusty stone floor of the old monastery in which her father and his men had taken refuge. The French hail of bullets through the holes where windows had once stood continued as the French dragoon troopers began to surge forwards in a great mass, the sound of their pas de charge loud even above the roar of gunpowder.
‘En avant! En avant! Vive la République!’ She heard their cries.
All around was the acrid stench of gunpowder and of fresh spilt blood. Stones
