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‘Can you not think of someone you might recommend, Andrew? Will you not save me from taking the next fortune-hunter that crosses my path?’
‘Are you playing a game with me?’ Andrew stopped walking, turning to look into her eyes. ‘If this is your idea of amusement we may banter and then forget it—but if you are in earnest I shall give the matter some serious thought. However, I think you must give yourself a little more time.’
Mariah pouted. ‘Must I? Very well. I am prepared to wait a few months longer, if I must, but please take me seriously. If you cannot help me I may have to decide for myself—and then I might make a mistake. How would you feel with that on your conscience? I am a lonely widow at the mercy of unscrupulous men—and I am asking you for help. Ignore me at your peril.’
‘My hands are tied for the moment. Come, can you truly not wait a little longer to find a husband who will love and care for you?’
‘If he was the right man I would wait for ever,’ Mariah said, and for once she was not laughing. Her heart raced. Surely he must know what was in her mind? She could not have been plainer …
SECRETS AND SCANDALS
Nothing stays secret for long in Regency Society!
The truth threatens to reveal a scandal
for all three couples in this
exciting new trilogy from
Anne Herries
THE DISAPPEARING DUCHESS—
February 2012
THE MYSTERIOUS LORD MARLOWE—
March 2012
THE SCANDALOUS LORD LANCHESTER—
April 2012
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About the Author
ANNE HERRIES lives in Cambridgeshire, where she is fond of watching wildlife, and spoils the birds and squirrels that are frequent visitors to her garden. Anne loves to write about the beauty of nature, and sometimes puts a little into her books, although they are mostly about love and romance. She writes for her own enjoyment, and to give pleasure to her readers. She is a winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Romance Prize. She invites readers to contact her on her website: www.lindasole.co.uk
Previous novels by the same author:
THE RAKE’S REBELLIOUS LADY
A COUNTRY MISS IN HANOVER SQUARE*
AN INNOCENT DEBUTANTE IN HANOVER SQUARE*
THE MISTRESS OF HANOVER SQUARE*
FORBIDDEN LADY†
THE LORD’S FORCED BRIDE†
THE PIRATE’S WILLING CAPTIVE†
HER DARK AND DANGEROUS LORD†
BOUGHT FOR THE HAREM
HOSTAGE BRIDE
THE DISAPPEARING DUCHESS**
THE MYSTERIOUS LORD MARLOWE**
*A Season in Town trilogy
† The Melford Dynasty
**Secrets and Scandals
And in the Regency series The Steepwood Scandal:
LORD RAVENSDEN’S MARRIAGE
COUNTERFEIT EARL
And in The Hellfire Mysteries:
AN IMPROPER COMPANION
A WEALTHY WIDOW
A WORTHY GENTLEMAN
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The Scandalous
Lord Lanchester
Anne Herries
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Prologue
See Naples and die. Those romantic words could be taken two ways. Andrew, Lord Lanchester, smiled wryly as he looked at the rundown hovels along the waterfront and knew them to be the haunt of knaves, cutthroats and thieves. Was he truly likely to find the man he sought in those rundown hovels? Looking about him at the peeling
