Rugged and handsome and fleet of foot as a Bow Street
Runner, Assistant Magistrate Jackson Pinter feels this
mission is the worst he had ever been asked to handle. He
just knows it is going to end badly. As a secret admirer of
the lovely Lady Celia Sharpe, Jackson was definitely not
thrilled to be asked to investigate three potential beaus of
hers, so she could pick the right one to be her husband. He
already knew their weaknesses and not one of them he felt
was good enough for Lady Celia. He would have loved to have
married her himself, but he would be damn if he was going to
be called a fortune hunter. It was bad enough being a
called a bastard! What a fool he was to agree to this task!
Damn Celia's interfering grandmother and her ridiculous
ultimatum that all her grandchildren should be wed within
the year or she was cutting them out of her not so
insignificant fortune. Having been employed by Oliver, the
Marquess of Stoneville, to investigate the death of their
parents nineteen years earlier, Jackson liked and admired
the Sharpe family and was glad that Oliver's siblings,
Jarret, Minerva and Gabriel, had all found wonderful
partners and had married during the previous year. Now,
with a scant two months left to go, Celia is determined not
to disappoint her brothers and sisters and would prove to
her Grandmother Hetty that she is good looking enough to
find a husband. Anxious about the future for her
grandchildren, Hetty had made it clear she was not backing
down.
As Jackson proceeds with following up on his investigation,
he realizes that Celia is in danger and long held secrets
come out that make Jackson feel like a fool. How could he
live with himself if he couldn't protect her? Could they
ever cross the very real barrier between their two worlds?
Well known romance writer Sabrina Jeffries has created a
real winner for her fifth and final book in her witty and
spirited The Hellions of Halstead Hall Series. While A LADY
NEVER SURRENDERS can easily be read as a stand-alone
romance, Jeffries serves up a cracking Grande Finale
suspense filled romance between Mr. Prim and Proper Pinter
and the beautiful Lady Celia, a spunky and crack shot
heroine! You won't want to miss what happens to the last of
the hellions!
When the youngest Sharpe sister hatches a plan to gain
marriage offers, the straight-laced Bow Street Runner
Jackson Pinter knows he'll do whatever it takes to ruin her
scheme...
Lady Celia Sharpe hopes that if she can garner offers of
marriage from several eligible gentlemen and show her
grandmother she is capable of gaining a husband, she can
convince Gran to rescind the marriage ultimatum for her. And
if that plan doesn’t work, at least she’ll have a husband
lined up. But Bow Street Runner Jackson Pinter seems
determined to ruin her plans by disapproving of every suitor
she asks him to investigate. It's only when she and Jackson
work together to solve her parents’ murders, plunging them
both into danger, that she realizes why--because the only
man he wants her to marry is himself!
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