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Mackenzies #4
Berkley
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Featuring: Hart Mackenzie; Eleanor Ramsay
320 pages
ISBN: 0425247104
EAN: 9780425247105
Kindle: B005GSZZ9C
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From Chapter One
The study hadn't changed at all, Eleanor noted when she
entered. The same dark paneling covered the walls, and
bookcases filled with what looked like the same books
climbed to the high ceiling. The huge desk that had
belonged to Hart's father still reposed in the middle of
the room
.
The same carpet covered the floor, though a different hound
dozed by the fire. This was Ben, if she remembered
correctly, a son of Hart's old dog, Beatrix, who'd passed
on a few months after her engagement to Hart had ended. The
news of Beatrix's death had nearly broken her heart.
Ben didn't open his eyes as they entered, and his gentle
snore blended with the crackle of the fire on the hearth.
Hart touched Eleanor's elbow to guide her across the room.
She wished he wouldn't, because the steel strength of his
fingers made her want to melt, and she needed to maintain
her resolve.
If all went well today, she'd not have to be close to him
again, but she had to make the first approach in private. A
letter could have gone too easily into the wrong hands, or
be lost by a careless secretary, or burned unopened by Hart.
Hart dragged an armchair to his desk, moving it as though
it weighed nothing. Eleanor knew better, though, as she sat
on it. The heavily carved chair was as solid as a boulder.
Hart took the desk chair, his kilt moving as he sat,
showing sinewy strength above his knees. Anyone believing a
kilt unmanly had never seen Hart Mackenzie in one.
Eleanor touched the desk's smooth top. "You know, Hart,
if
you plan to be the first minister of the nation, you might
give a thought to changing the furniture. It's a bit out
of
date."
"Bugger the furniture. What is this problem that made you
drag yourself and your father down from the wilds of
Scotland?"
"I am worried about you. You've worked so hard for this,
and I can't bear to think of what it would do to you if
you
lost everything. I've lay awake and pondered what to do
for
a week. I know we parted acrimoniously, but that was a long
time ago, and many things have changed, especially for you.
I still care about you, Hart, whatever you may believe, and
I was distressed to think that you might have to go into
hiding if this came out."
"Into hiding?" He stared at her. "What are you talking
about? My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard
and
a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost
an asset to being a politician."
"Possibly, but this might humiliate you. You'd be a
laughingstock, and that would certainly be a setback."
His gaze became sharp. Gracious, he looked like his father
when he did that. The old duke had been handsome, but a
monster, with nasty, cold eyes that made you know you were
a toad beneath his heel. Hart, in spite of it all, had a
warmth that his father had lacked.
"Eleanor, cease babbling and tell me what this is all
about."
"Ah, yes. It's time you saw, I think." Eleanor dug into
a
pocket inside her coat and withdrew a folded piece of
pasteboard. She laid this on the desk in front of Hart, and
opened it.
Hart went still.
The object inside the folded card was a photograph. It was
a full-length picture of a younger Hart, shot in profile.
Hart's body had been a little slimmer then but still well
muscled.
In the photograph, he rested his buttocks against the edge
of a desk, his sinewy hand bracing on the desk's top
beside
his hip. His head was bent as he studied something at his
feet, out of the frame.
The pose, though perhaps a bit unusual for a portrait, was
not the unique thing about the picture. The most
interesting aspect of this photograph was that, in it, Hart
Mackenzie was quite, quite naked.
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