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Overview
Set during the Georgian era of the 1750s, the story follows Lord Jack Carstares, a disgraced nobleman who turns to a life of crime after taking the blame for his brother’s persistent dishonesty at cards. Branded a cheater and a thief, Jack briefly flees England before returning under the name of Sir Anthony Ferndale. Forced into the shadows, he becomes a highwayman notorious for robbing the carriages of the rich. Following his father’s death and his brother’s ascent to the head of the family estate, Jack is caught while robbing the carriage of a man who turns out to be Miles O’Hara, an old friend and Justice of the Peace. Arrested, Jack is forced to reveal his identity, and is promptly forgiven. Retaining his disguise and unready to rejoin the social life of England’s elite, Jack becomes embroiled in a scandal involving the abduction of Miss Diana Beauleigh, whom he rescues from the wicked Duke of Andover. Unable to remain anonymous for much longer, Jack is pulled by his innate goodness toward the friends and family he has long since left behind, allowing him one last chance at redemption.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781513207940 |
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| Publisher: | Mint Editions |
| Publication date: | 07/27/2021 |
| Series: | Mint Editions (Romantic Tales) |
| Pages: | 268 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d) |
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Prologue
Clad in his customary black and silver, with raven hair unpowdered and elaborately dressed, diamonds on his fingers and in his cravat, Hugh Tracy Clare Belmanoir, Duke of Andover, sat at the escritoire in the library of his town house, writing.
He wore no rouge on his face, the almost unnatural pallor of which seemed designedly enhanced by a patch set beneath his right eye. Brows and lashes were black, the former slanting slightly up at the corners, but his narrow, heavy-lidded eyes were green and strangely piercing. The thin lips curled a little, sneering, as one dead-white hand travelled to and fro across the paper.
'…but it seems that the Fair Lady has a Brother, who, finding Me Enamoured, threw down the Gauntlet. I soundly whipt the presumptuous Child, and so the Affair ends. Now, as you, My dear Frank, also took some Interestt in the Lady, I write for the Express Purpose of informing You that at my Hands she has received no Hurt, nor is not like to. That I in part tell You and You shall not imagine Yr self in Honor bound again to call Me out, which Purpose, an I mistake not, I yesterday read in Yr Eyes. I should be Exceeding loth to meet You in a Second Time, when I should consider it my Duty to teach You an even severer Lesson than Before. This I am not Wishful of doing for the Liking I bear You. 'So in all Friendship believe me, Frank,
'Your most Obedient, Humble
'Devil.'
His Grace of Andover paused, pen held in mid-air. A mocking smile dawned in his eyes, and he wrote again.
'In the event of any Desire on Yr Part to hazard Yr Luck with my late Paramour, Permit Me to warn You 'gainst the Bantam Brother, who is in Very Truth a Fire-Eater, and would wish to make of You, as of Me, one Mouthfull. I shall hope to see You at the Queensberry Rout on Thursday, when You may Once More strive to direct mine Erring Footsteps on to the Thorny Path of Virtue.'
His Grace read the postscript through with another satisfied, sardonic smile. Then he folded the letter, and affixing a wafer, peremptorily struck the hand-bell at his side.
And the Honourable Frank Fortescue, reading the postscript half-an-hour later, smiled too, but differently. Also he sighed and put the letter into the fire.
'And so ends another affaire… I wonder if you'll go insolently to the very end?' he said softly, watching the paper shrivel and flare up. 'I would to God you might fall honestly in love—and that the lady might save you from yourself—my poor Devil!'
Table of Contents
CONTENTS.PROLOGUE
I. AT THE CHEQUERS INN, FALLOWFIELD
II. MY LORD AT THE WHITE HART
III. INTRODUCING THE HON. RICHARD CARSTARES
IV. INTRODUCING THE LADY LAVINIA CARSTARES
V. HIS GRACE OF ANDOVER
VI. BATH: 29 QUEEN SQUARE
VII. INTRODUCING SUNDRY NEW CHARACTERS
VIII. THE BITER BIT
IX LADY O'HARA INTERVENES
X LADY O'HARA RETIRES
XI. MY LORD TURNS RESCUER AND COMES NIGH ENDING HIS LIFE
XII. MY LORD DICTATES A LETTER AND RECEIVES A VISITOR
XIII. MY LORD MAKES HIS BOW
XIV. MISTRESS DIANA IS UNMAIDENLY
XV. O'HARA'S MIND IS MADE UP
XVI. MR. BETTISON PROPOSES
XVII. LADY O'HARA WINS HER POINT
XVIII. ENTER CAPTAIN HAROLD LOVELACE
XIX. THE REAPPEARANCE OF HIS GRACE OF ANDOVER
XX. HIS GRACE OF ANDOVER TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME
XXI. MRS. FANSHAWE LIGHTS A FIRE AND O'HARA FANS THE FLAME
XXII. DEVELOPMENTS
XXIII. LADY LAVINIA GOES TO THE PLAY
XXIV. RICHARD PLAYS THE MAN
XXV. HIS GRACE OF ANDOVER CAPTURES THE QUEEN
XXVI. MY LORD RIDES TO FRUSTRATE HIS GRACE
XXVII. MY LORD ENTERS BY THE WINDOW
XXVIII. IN WHICH WHAT THREATENED TO BE TRAGEDY TURNS TO COMEDY
XXIX. LADY O'HARA IS TRIUMPHANT
EPILOGUE