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Fairy Tales #4
Avon
September 2012
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Featuring: James Ryburn; Theodora Saxby
384 pages
ISBN: 0062021737
EAN: 9780062021731
Kindle: B007HB8GT2
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Early evening of the day following the wedding of James
Ryburn, Earl of Islay, and heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to
Theodora Saxby, known to her new husband as Daisy.
A flare of anger ignited by fear swept over James. "What
in the bloody hell are you getting at, Bairley?" he said
sharply.
"The papers are all calling her the โUgly Duchess,'" his
valet replied miserably.
"What?"
"The ugly duchess, a play on that fairy tale, The Ugly
Duckling. My lord, please keep your voice down. Her ladyship
is next door. She retired to her room directly after
returning from the modiste."
"When you say the โpapers,' which ones do you mean,
precisely?" James pulled off his shirt and tossed it on the
bed. Daisy must be devastated. They were all blasted liars.
He'd kill the reporters himself. He'd have the presses shut
down by the next morrow. He discovered his fingers were
shaking slightly with rage.
"All of the dailies," Bairley replied. "All except the
Morning Chronicle, which said that she had the profile of a
king."
"That's all right," James said, deciding to spare the
Morning Chronicle. He tore open his breeches and a button
skipped across the floor.
Bairley scurried after it.
"I'll have a retraction and apology from every one of
them tomorrow morning," James said through clenched teeth,
"or by God I'll torch their buildings myself. There's some
power in a dukedom yet, and I'll use every iota of it to
destroy them."
"Yes, your lordship," his valet said, having found the
button. He turned to pull evening clothing from the wardrobe
and lay it carefully on the bed. "Unfortunately, her maid
reports that her ladyship saw the papers when she visited
the modiste today. It's not only the papers—there are
prints in the stationers' windows already. They did them
overnight because of all the excitement about the wedding."
"Oh, for—" James broke off. "Lady Islay went out
and saw all that, and now she's ... where?"
"Next door," Bairley said. "She went straight to her
chamber, her face white as a winding sheet, that's what Mr.
Cramble said."
James threw his breeches and smalls on the bed. "I'll
have a quick bath and then pay a visit to my wife. Tell
Cramble that I want no one interrupting us until I ring. Not
even her maid," he said to Bairley, over his shoulder.
Five minutes later he pulled on a dressing gown, and
headed for the door to Daisy's room.
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