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Brazen Brides (Book
5)
Miss Hastings
Excellent
London Adventure
Having never left Upper Barrington in her twenty years,
orphan Miss Emma Hastings is overjoyed when the uncle she's
never met invites her to come live with him in London.
Everything about living in the Capital lures her. She
doesn't even mind sharing her seat in the mail coach with a
gargantuan man whose belly rests on his lap. Even when her
uncle fails to meet her at the posting inn in London, she's
too exhilarated over the city's sights and sounds to be
worried. After many hours pass and her uncle does not
collect her, she determines to lug her trunk behind her as
she struggles through London's streets at night to find her
uncle's home.
Spurned by his mistress and vowing to never love again, Adam
Birmingham, whose family is the richest in Britain, decides
to get very drunk. As he's staggering home, he takes pity on
a very small young lady who's lugging a very large trunk
behind her. In the rain. Her destination is the home of his
next-door neighbor, but no one answers the bell. Adam is
compelled to ask the young woman to spend the night at his
home. Promptly after showing her the chamber in which she'll
sleep, Adam passes out on her chaise. It's not until the
following morning he remembers that the lady's uncle has
died.
When Adam learns that Emma cannot return to Upper Barrington
and that she has nowhere to go, he offers marriage to the
hysterical lady. His heart is so shattered, he will never
love again. Why not make this helpless orphan happy? Soon
after they wed, they become convinced that someone has
forged her uncle's will--and likely murdered her uncle.
Their resolve to bring the murderer to justice jeopardizes
Emma's life. Knowing she's in danger brings out Adam's
protective instincts--and something far deeper, something
he'd thought to never feel again. . .
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