Seductive Lies (Secret Lives Series) (37 page)

BROKEN LEGACY by Colleen Connally

Book Two, Secret Lives Series

Lord Gerard Lenister needed the lady…after their meeting, he wanted her.

For seventeen years, Lady Eloise Granville lived in France thinking herself a bastard. Not until her life was threatened did her father cross the English Channel to reclaim her as his legitimate daughter. Now four years later a revolution roars its ugly head in France. Rumors abound of Lady Eloise’s life before her emergence in England…rumors that link her to the notorious leaders of the French Revolution.

Lord Gerard Lenister knows well the whispered connections Lady Eloise has across the Channel and the disdain that Society holds for the lady. It matters little to him. He could have cared less if she was the incarnation of a she-devil. He would marry Jezebel herself if she helped him on his mission. He is that desperate…but soon discovers that Lady Eloise is not what she seems.

EXCERPT

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