Grand Central Publishing
Featuring: Fiona Ferguson; Alex Knight
400 pages ISBN: 1455519340 EAN: 9781455519347 Kindle: B00IRISI2Y Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lady Fiona Maeve Ferguson Hawes and her twin sister, Lady
Mairead, have been living with their grandfather, the
marquessate of Leyburn, for the last four years, ever
since
Ian's best friend, Alex Knight, Lord Whitmore, had found
them and brought them to Hawesworth Castle in Yorkshire.
Alex Knight has just delivered news of their brother, Ian,
and it was the worst news anyone could hear. Ian was
killed on the battlefield after being accused of treason
for
attempting to murder the Duke of Wellington. This
deplorable news gives their despicable grandfather the
reason he has looked for since the young women arrived at
his estate. He tells them to leave his presence within
the
hour; he will not have the scandal about them or their
brother tarnish his esteemed name.
One month later Alex is back at Hawesworth with wonderful
news. Ian is not dead. Alex rushes to tell the twins,
and
discovers that the marquess had thrown them out the day
Alex
was last here. Now it is his job once again to find the
women, this time with the help of his best friend Charles,
Lord Wilde, who is called Chuffy and is a brilliant and
very
eccentric man, and a total social misfit. When they find
Fiona and Mairead, the women do not want to leave the
village where they have taken refuge. Then strange and
dangerous thing begin to happen to them, and the ladies
have
no choice but to flee for their lives.
Eileen Dreyer has created excellent plotting,
characterizations, and pacing of narrative. Fiona did
what
she had to do to feed herself and Mairead after their
mother
died, and before Ian found them. She knows that polite
society will never accept her, and she is content with her
teaching the poor children, and battling wits with
respected
scholars. Fiona has always had a physical reaction to
Alex,
but believes his family would be disappointed in his
choice
of a friend, or more.
TWICE TEMPTED is the fourth in the
Drakes'Rakes series, and is a wonderful stand-alone
story. Couples from the preceding tales drop in with
their
updated situations. Ms. Dreyer presents the reader with
an
exciting, well written story of romance, spies, loyalty
and
betrayal.
Fiona Ferguson's troubles began with a kiss . . . It feels like a lifetime ago that Alex Knight saved Fiona from certain doom . . . and stole a soul-shattering kiss for good measure. Wanting nothing more than to keep her safe, he left her in the care of her grandfather, the Marquess of Dourne. But Fiona was hardly safe. As soon as he could, the marquess cast her and her sister out on the streets with only her wits to keep them alive. Alex has never forgotten that long-ago kiss. Now the dashing spy is desperate to make up for failing his duty once before. This time he will protect Fiona once and for all, from a deadly foe bent on taking revenge on the Ferguson line-and anyone who stands in the way . .
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