She doesn’t expect to find Gabriel again. She eavesdrops at doors and dons men’s clothing in order to make her way around town. Miss Sophia Hampton has always gone her own way. As he works to uncover what has happened in his absence, he has a reunion with the woman he loved and had to leave. THE STORY: Major Gabriel Prideaux has returned to England to find his older brother in a lunatic asylum with much left unexplained. The resolution of a years old separation was too simple for me.
Unfortunately, focusing on anything other than Miss Avery seems a nearly impossible task.FINAL DECISION: I liked the connection between the hero and heroine but the book had too slow a start for me as it covered a lot of backstory.
But a chance encounter with the reckless Cordelia Avery gives him the best lead he's had in years to finally putting his family's past to rest. And unless Clayworth can find the evidence his late wife hid, he could face the gallows himself. After all, a perfect English gentleman would never have a traitor for a mother. But the truth, as it often can be, is ugly. To all the world, Clayworth is the epitome of the perfect English gentleman, and he so wishes that image was the truth. He's still trying to clean up the mess his first wife left him, even years after her death. Brendan Reese, the Earl of Clayworth, has no intention of ever marrying again. But the very proper earl is most assuredly the wrong sort for her purposes.
If only she could get her heart to go along with the plan and to stop leaping whenever Lord Adonis.er.the Earl of Clayworth is nearby. The scandalous Marquess of Haversham might not be perfect to anyone else, but taking the man's black reputation under consideration, Cordie believes she'll enjoy all the freedom she's always wished for in his disreputable arms. A man who will allow her all the freedom she has ever craved. After years of abuse at the hands of her mother, Cordelia Avery knows the only way out is marriage to the perfect man. Book excerpt: A Regency Historical Novel - Book Four of the Scandalous Series. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 292 pages. Book Synopsis A Scandalous Past by : Ava Stoneĭownload or read book A Scandalous Past written by Ava Stone and published by Second Wind Publishing.
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