Gentleman's Guide 01 - His Impetuous Debutante (35 page)

Emily Frasier has lived as the ward of
Duke Ellings since her father died when she was fifteen. She also
knows that soon it will be time to leave his household and make her
way on her own. When she discovers a cottage while visiting her
aunt and uncle she knows this is where she wants to live and become
a teacher, as her father once was.

Dillon Chambers must find a wife this
season in order to please his mother. If she didn’t have control
over something more precious than his freedom and life, he would
not have made the promise to marry a lady with high connections at
the end of the season. When he comes across Emily at his cottage
and learns she is the ward of a duke, he feels his luck has finally
changed. He could please his mother and settle with a lady he would
actually want to have as his wife.

When the truth becomes known in London
that Emily is only a professor’s daughter, Dillon knows his parents
will never approve. Will he risk everything to have her? Will Emily
do the sensible thing or risk her reputation and heart so that
Dillon doesn’t destroy all he holds dear?

To Walk in the
Sun

Hiding from a dangerous man, Tess
Crawford thought The Wiggons’ School for Elegant Young Ladies would
be the perfect place to disappear. Or it would be if the local
villagers weren’t on edge because of the vampire in their midst, at
least they think he’s a vampire. The fascination with the reclusive
viscount disrupts the girls’ studies and Tess fights an unending
battle to convince her students that monsters do not
exist.

Vincent Latimer, Viscount
Atwood, is
not
a
vampire, no matter what the villagers believe. He wishes the
book,
Wake Not the Dead,
had never been written. There is a very good
reason he visits his wife’s grave at night, and it has nothing to
do with trying to raise her from the dead.

When a storm thrusts Tess into
Vincent’s path and destroys the school, both of their pasts
collide.