I have no wish to spoil your chances of meeting the decent
and respectable man you desire. Yet I find I cannot idly
sit back and accept that I will never see you again, or --
forgive me for my candor -- kiss you again. If I were like
other gentlemen, I would say good-bye to you now and wish
you the best. But I have not behaved as a gentleman for
many years....Do you understand my meaning?
So begins a very wicked correspondence between the scandal-
ridden Marquess of Rawdon and Clara Wilson, an heiress
with
more than a few of her own secrets to hide. Clara has come
all the way to London to find respectability, but she has
always craved excitement, and adventure has always sought
her out.
This time, excitement is a man unlike any she has ever met
before, one who is stunning, brilliant, and definitely not
what her mother had in mind. Clara's cautious younger
sister Adele warns her to be wary and remember her past
follies, but her spirited older sister Sophia urges her to
risk it all for love. Clara knows the answer lies
somewhere
in between, but with her heart and her future on the line,
the stakes will never be higher.…
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