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Also by Barbara Dawson Smith:

The Rogue Report, June 2006
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Countess Confidential, February 2006
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The Wedding Night, April 2004
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One Wild Night, September 2003
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With All My Heart, September 2002
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Romancing the Rogue, September 2000
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Seduced By A Scoundrel, December 1999
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Too Wicked To Love, April 1999
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Scandalous Weddings, December 1998
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Her Secret Affair, May 1998
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Never A Lady, November 1996
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A Glimpse Of Heaven, December 1995
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Countess Confidential
Barbara Dawson Smith

St. Martin's Press
February 2006
Featuring: Simon Croft; Claire Hollybrooke
368 pages
ISBN: 0312932391
Paperback
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Romance Historical

Dear Reader,

This is the story of how I, a penniless upstart, became a countess.

I never set out to be the heroine in a romantic tale of derring-do. As a spinster of five-and-twenty, I was much too practical to imagine myself tracking a dangerous criminal or falling prey to ardent nonsense. Nor did I ever envision myself entering the gilded ballrooms of society where indolent aristocrats nibbled cake and traded gossip. But that was before my father was wrongfully imprisoned as a jewel thief.

Determined to uncover the true criminal, I posed as an impoverished widow and secured a post in the grand household of a noble family – the very family that had cruelly cast out my mother many years ago. Of course, they knew not who I was. To them, I was merely a servant, an invisible hireling. And little did I know, my daring plan would throw me into the path of Simon Croft, the almighty Earl of Rockford.

Arrogant, charming, and too handsome for his own good, he might have walked straight off a pedestal in a museum. I had no use for such a rogue, yet from the moment of our first meeting, he tempted my unruly heart. And soon, he threatened my schemes as well, for Simon had secrets of his own….

—Claire, the Countess of Rockford

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