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November 2004
384 pages
ISBN: 0446614378
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Historical | Romance Historical
RAY STOOD BEHIND MAGGIE, HIS GAZE CATCHING HERS IN THE
MIRROR.
The candles on the dressing table cast her reflection in a
luminescent glow that made her eyes sparkle like sapphires.
Her neck was now bare but for the cascade of mahogany curls
tumbling across her creamy shoulders. In the mirror,
Maggie's eyes darkened and her lips parted. He barely
stifled a groan. His hand was almost trembling with the
desire coursing through him as he lifted the hairbrush and
gently drew it through her hair. Inside he felt like tinder
awaiting a spark to burst into flames. Dropping the brush,
Gray buried both hands in her thick tresses. She rose and swayed against him. His eyes flew open and he
grabbed her arm to steady her. His vision filled with her,
so close, so soft in his arms. She ran her hand down the
front of his shirt and up again to settle against the bare
skin exposed by the gap at his collar. "Oh, Gray." She gave a long sigh. "Does this mean you will
share this bed with me?" She said:
How could I, Maggie Delaney, have been duped? Swept off my
feet and married to a man who lied about his name, I now
find myself at the mercy of extreme circumstances, with no
money and an infant son. But I have found the owner of my
husband's false name: Captain John Grayson, a soldier, a
hero, and a man of means. He doesn't believe my story, but
there is hope. Captain Grayson's cousins, of big hearts and
little suspicion, are eager to accept his new "wife" and
make me a lady. How can I, a woman on the brink of ruin,
refuse? He said:
Does she take me, Captain John Grayson, for a fool...easily
taken in by her beauty and willing to go along with her
charade? When she first came to me with her preposterous
cIaims, I did my gentlemanly duty. I paid her debts and
took no advantage of her. Now I find her and her son at my
ancestral home, beloved by all. I could easily throw her
out, but her fierce pride and smoldering eyes tempt me to
keep her...and make her my wife both in my heart and my bed.
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