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Название: The Desperate Love of a Lord: A Free Novella

Автор: Jane Lark

Издательство: HarperCollins

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      The Desperate Love of a Lord

      A Free Historical Romance Novella

      JANE LARK

      A division of HarperCollinsPublishers

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

       Copyright

      HarperImpulse an imprint of

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London, SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2014

      Copyright © Jane Lark 2014

      Cover images © Shutterstock.com

      Jane Lark asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © October 2014 ISBN: 9780008115876

      Version 2016-02-17

      Digital eFirst: Automatically produced by Atomik ePublisher from Easypress.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise for Jane Lark

       Part One

       Part Two

       Part Three

       About the Author

       Also by Jane Lark …

      

       About HarperImpulse

      

       About the Publisher

       Praise for Jane Lark

       “Jane Lark has an incredible talent to draw the reader in from the first page onwards.”

       Cosmochicklitan Book Reviews

       “Any description that I give you would not only spoil the story but could not give this book a tenth of the justice that it deserves. Wonderful!”

       Candy Coated Book Blog

       “This book held me captive after the first 2 pages. If I could crawl inside and live in there with the characters I would.”

       A Reading Nurse Blogspot

       “The book swings from truly swoon-worthy, tense and heart wrenching, highly erotic and everything else in between.”

       BestChickLit.com

       “I love Ms. Lark’s style—beautifully descriptive, emotional and can I say, just plain delicious reading? This is the kind of mixer upper I’ve been looking for in romance lately.”

       Devastating Reads BlogSpot

       Part One

      Looking from the window of the dingy hotel room, Lady Violet Rimes gathered her courage. She knew what the physician was about to say. She could not quite believe she had trapped herself in this dreadful muddle. She was a grown woman, a widow who knew the way of the world and she had always been cautious before, but this time …

      “I presume, Ma’am, you know you are with child?”

      “How far gone? When is it due?” Her bleeding had stopped weeks ago, though she’d pretended it was not happening. She had spent the last weeks half hoping it was true and half wishing it were not.

      “I would think February, Ma’am.”

      February? It was already October.

      The physician hesitated. “I know of … If you … There is a woman who can help with such things –”

      “No.” She wanted the child. She had wanted a child by her husband. But none had come. Since then unless she’d married again, caution was the only choice. She’d avoided conception as best she could. But now fate had made her choice she was neither going to give up the child or allow it to be condemned by scandal. She would keep the child. СКАЧАТЬ