Edith Layton (25 page)
Authors: The Return of the Earl
EDITH LAYTON wrote her first novel when she was ten. She bought a marbleized notebook, her goal being that the story fit between the covers. Now, an award-winning author with more than twenty-five novels and novellas to her credit, her criteria have changed. The story has to fit the reader as well as between the covers.
Graduating from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in creative writing and theater, Edith worked for various media, including a radio station and a major motion picture company. She married and went to suburbia, where she was fruitful and multiplied to the tune of three amazingly creative children. She also shares her life with the gorgeous Bernese Mountain Dog, Georgette; a foundling parakeet, Little Richard; and assorted pond fish, which too often provide impromptu sushi for wandering herons at her Long Island home.
Ms. Layton purely loves anyone who visits her website at
www.edithlayton.com.
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AVON ROMANCES
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RMS
A
GAIN
by Kathryn Smith
K
ISSING THE
B
RIDE
by Sara Bennett
O
NCE A
G
ENTLEMAN
by Candice Hern
O
NE
W
ICKED
N
IGHT
by Sari Robins
T
HE
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RINCESS AND THE
W
OLF
by Karen Kay
T
HE
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WEETEST
S
IN
by Mary Reed McCall
T
AMING
T
ESSA
by Brenda Hiatt
Coming Soon
T
HE
B
EAUTY AND THE
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PY
by Gayle Callen
M
ASQUERADING THE
M
ARQUESS
by Anne Mallory
And Don’t Miss These
ROMANTIC TREASURES
from Avon Books
A S
CANDAL TO
R
EMEMBER
by Linda Needham
S
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L
OVE
: B
OOK
F
IVE OF
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HE
H
IGHLAND
L
ORDS
by Karen Ranney
A W
ANTED
M
AN
by Susan Kay Law
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE RETURN OF THE EARL
. Copyright © 2004 by Edith Felber. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
ePub edition June 2007 ISBN 9780061753138
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