St. Martin's Press
Featuring: Nicholas Staunton; Poppy Smith-Barnes
384 pages ISBN: 031237402X EAN: 9780312374020 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Perky Lady Poppy Smith-Barnes of London is the daughter of
the widowed Earl of Derby, sought after by every eligible
bachelor, denying proposals from all. Being a member of the
Spinster's Club along with her friends Eleanor and
Beatrice, they are all holding out for that perfect love
match -- or they vow to remain spinsters. Poppy's excuse for
refusing marriage is the Russian Prince Sergei, whom she
fell in love with at the age of 15. She recreates her love
as the fictitious Duke of Drummond. Poppy's intentions are
good, until the dashing and secretive Nicholas Staunton,
the real Duke of Drummond, appears.
Nicholas, one of the Impossible Bachelors, is in the
Service for England and receives his assignment to marry
Lady Poppy and continue by stealing a Russian painting with
a hidden message concealing the "mole." Nicholas finds
Poppy is just as adventuresome as he and loves the risk
equally. Nicholas teaches Poppy the sensual side of exotic
sex, while she contends she will not marry him. She falls
in love with him, but requires his love in return. As
Nicholas finally comes to terms with his true feelings,
Sergei's sister, the Russian Princess Natasha, traps
Nicholas into an engagement on false pretenses. Now it's
time for Poppy to re-evaluate the rules and beliefs of the
Spinster's Club.
Another story of the Impossible Bachelors, this one is just
as exciting and mysterious as the last. Kieran
Kramer is an exciting and colorful writer who has the
ability to bring her characters to colorful life. Poppy is
a vivacious and somewhat naughty but humorous young lady
with a vivid imagination who makes a very good spy. This is
very pleasant book to read and artfully created to bring
hours of enjoyment.
Kisses and sparks fly equally fast in this fast-paced romp
featuring second Impossible Bachelor Nicholas Staunton and
Lady Poppy Smith-Barnes, a member of the Spinsters Club.
Poppy won't marry unless it's for love, so she fobs off all
her suitors with the story that she's on the verge of an
engagement to the fierce and frightening Duke of Drummond, a
product of her Cook's vivid imagination. Or so Poppy thinks,
until she's trapped in an unwanted engagement with Nicholas,
the real Duke of Drummond, who's just as mysterious
as his fictitious counterpart and a true danger to even the
most fortified Spinster heart.
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