His Heart's Delight (31 page)

“Are there such things?” she asked between
her giggles.

“If there are then they are alive and well in
that conservatory. I want you to warn your sister not to go in
there alone.”

He stopped to talk to a footman on station in
the hall. “I think you should put a sign on that door,” he said,
pointing to the conservatory. “Not everyone will be able to find
their way out of there.”

The footman nodded in that tolerant way they
all learned in the earliest stages of their training.

“My lord, what have you been drinking?” She
was almost sure that since dinner he had had nothing more than a
few sips of champagne.

“No spirits, my love. I am drunk on the
prospect of claiming your affection.” He bowed to her.

“Come, let’s dance. It is just what we
need.”

He held her back a moment. “Sprite, it will
be our third dance.” His raised his eyebrows in a silly imitation
of a wicked villain. “Do we dare?”

She nodded as a conspirator would. “My mother
is out of the room and we only have the gossips to fear.”

“Then we are going to dance. Shall we look
for ourselves in the paper tomorrow?”

Christiana laughed and clapped her hands. “It
would be perfect, absolutely perfect!”

Morgan nodded and enclosed her hands with
his. “We will try, my heart, and at the very least it will be as
perfect as love can make it.”

The End

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His Heart’s Delight
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Thank you!

Mary Blayney

Please read on for a peek at more books in the
Braedon Family Series.

HIS HEART’S DELIGHT

The Braedon Family Series | Book One

Morgan Braedon is not the slightest bit
interested in marriage though his family thinks it’s essential to
his future. Morgan needs one more year at the gaming tables to
reach his financial goals and then he will walk away from gambling
forever.

Christiana Lambert is not the slightest bit
interested in marriage to anyone but her childhood sweetheart who
is fighting abroad. While he is away she is going to London to
party and avoid men with marriage on their mind.

Morgan and Christiana meet and plan a sham
courtship to fool his family and guarantee her an escort. But love
takes them by surprise and the game changes more than one life.

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www.maryblayney.com

HIS LAST LOVER

The Braedon Family Series | Book Two

James Braedon’s relationship with his father has
never been easy. But a disaster puts James in charge of arranging
care for his aging parent and assuming his responsibilities as heir
to the family fortunes. Life seems utterly bleak until Marguerite
Voisson arrives to interview for the position of housekeeper.

Marguerite lost her family to a revolution but lives
life with an optimist’s conviction that the best is yet to come. As
she takes charge of the burned out ruin that is the Braedon family
home she discovers bits and pieces of James’ past that both delight
and sober her. And persuade her that James Braedon could be the
love of her life.

James is not as easily convinced that Marguerite will
be his last lover. The man’s stubbornness and his father’s
animosity dim Marguerite’s optimism. For the first time she wonders
if she has taken on a project that will lead to her ruin.

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THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY

The Braedon Family Series | Book Three

Opposites attract! Lady Mariel Braedon Whitlow might
be the daughter of a marquis but her life as a vicar’s wife has
always meant service to others. Now a widow, she is called to
London by an aging grandmother who is determined that her favored
granddaughter find out what she missed by marrying so young.

Edward Hadley is a society favorite. He enjoys
everything about London, from the gaming to the ladies, to the
chance to play wry tricks and pranks on his friends.

No one has ever thought to look beyond Edward’s
playful facade until Mariel comes along. Sparks fly as opposites
attract and exasperate. Can what they have in common ever outweigh
their differences?

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THE CAPTAIN’S MERMAID

The Braedon Family Series | Book Four

Lavinia Stewart is not interested in a London Season.
Born in Jamaica, she would rather stay in the country home she
manages for her widowed brother and swim in the pond with her young
niece. Her life is almost perfect, until her brother’s lecherous
friends threaten her well-being.

Captain William Chartwell needs someone to care for
his young ward, Angus, when the captain is called back to command.
When he hears of his neighbor’s plight and Lavinia’s need for a
protector, William proposes marriage which will leave him free to
go to sea and give her the quiet life she wishes with the
protection of his name. But nothing goes as planned for the
Captain, or his “Mermaid” when a surprising passion rises between
them and threatens to alter all their well-made plans.

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CHILD OF HER HEART

A Braedon Family Novella

When her engagement ends abruptly, Caroline Morton
leaves home for a position in France. Five years later she is back
with a ten-year-old orphan in tow. Marguerite was her charge in
France but is now the child of her heart. Nevertheless Caroline is
determined to find Marguerite’s uncle in France and reunite
them.

Marguerite has a better idea and is happily working
on a way to make the man from Caroline’s past part of her
present... and future. Caroline and surgeon Reynie Osgood are quite
polite to each other, but nothing more, until Marguerite forces
them to confront the past and a love that has never died.

“Child of her Heart” is the story of how Marguerite
Voisson, the heroine of HIS LAST LOVER, came to England as a child.
There she found a family to stand in for the one taken from her by
war. This novella is part of the Braedon Family Series.

For more information and to purchase, visit
www.maryblayney.com

The Braedon Family Series, Regency Set Romance

“Child of Her Heart” (a novella)

His Heart’s Delight

His Last Lover

The Pleasure of His Company

The Captain’s Mermaid

Contemporary Romance

Father Christmas

Anthologies

“Playing for Keeps” in
Once and Forever

Mary Blayney’s first writing effort, at age
14, was a script for her favorite TV show. She has written ever
since but did not discover until she was a “grownup” that people
would correct your mistakes and then pay you for what you
wrote.

In the years since she has written more than
twenty novels. Her first were for contemporaries for Silhouette,
including
Father Christmas
which is now available as an
ebook.

The rest of her books are Regency set
romances, including four novels and one novella in the Braedon
Series (originally published by Kensington), five titles in the
Pennistan Family Saga (published by Bantam) and eight novellas in
anthologies that features a magic coin. Mary also published an
original novella “Playing for Keeps” in the anthology
Once and
Forever
.

Mary believes that life is best lived with
joy, love and a generous heart and it is those ideas she most wants
to share with her readers.

Please visit Mary on her website at
www.MaryBlayney.com
and
connect with her on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/AuthorMaryBlayney
.