A Perilous Attraction. Patricia Frances Rowell

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      “You are badly in need of money. I have a great deal of it.”

      Catherine felt the color flooding her face again. “I hope I am not so mercenary.”

      “No, I don’t perceive you as mercenary—the word I would use would be desperate.” He waited patiently for a reply.

      Catherine struggled with warring emotions. He was right—her situation was desperate. Still, she balked at being forced into anything, let alone a marriage she didn’t want to a man she hardly knew and had no hope of understanding. She took refuge in anger, a much stronger and more comfortable emotion than desperation.

      “And you wish to take advantage of my predicament!”

      Caldbeck’s expression never changed. “I simply propose a mutually beneficial arrangement.”

      “And what do you hope to gain?”

      “Your beauty, your energy, your superb elegance. You…warm me….”

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      A Perilous Attraction

      Patricia Frances Rowell

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      For Judy Elise Rhodes,

      my friend in this world and all others.

      And for my chosen sister, Sue Harvey Harrison.

      No one has encouraged me more.

      And—always—for my hero, Johnny.

      Contents

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Epilogue

      Prologue

      Yorkshire, England, November 1783

      The boy stood unmoving, one hand clutching his father’s, the other held rigidly in a fist at his side. The rain beat down on the umbrella his father held above them, while the sound of sodden clods of dirt striking the casket mingled with the vicar’s words.

      “But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory….” The boy gritted his teeth, willing his lip not to tremble. He would not cry. He felt proud to be allowed to stand with the men of the funeral party. If they considered him old enough, he certainly СКАЧАТЬ