Title: The Scandalous Love of a Duke (Marlow Intrigues #3)
Author: Jane Lark
Genre: Regency Romance (Historical)
Publish Date: April 3, 2014
Publisher: HarperImpulse
Event Organized By: Literati
Author Services, Inc.
Synopsis
Book three in Jane Lark's Kindle best-selling Regency romance series!
Isolated by life and choice, John
Harding, the Duke of Pembroke, sees an angel in a pale mauve dress across a
room and is drawn closer as lust grips firm and hard in his stomach. The
wheat-blonde hair escaping her dull dove-grey bonnet and caressing her neck
lures his eyes to a spot he'd like to kiss. She speaks with animation her
hands moving. Then as if she senses his gaze the stranger turns and looks at
him.
A rush of pain and longing spilled
from Katherine's heart into her limbs. It was so long since she'd seen John but
her reaction was the same as it had been more than half-a-dozen years before.
She loved him, secretly, without hope, but a chasm of years and status stood
between them.
between them.
Excerpt
A glass of red wine balanced in one hand, the stem
dangling between his fingers, he joined another group of guests, fulfilling his
duty. He trusted no one here.
God, this was his life now, duty and falsehood. He
missed Egypt, he missed adventure and peace and simplicity. He was already
bored with people’s endless supplication. Everyone seemed to want something
from him. They sought to attach themselves to either his wealth or his power.
His grandfather had warned of this.
John had had enough. He was seeking his family to
escape it for a little while, and looking for Mary particularly. He knew his
vibrant sister would bring him back from the cold darkness crowding in on him.
He’d passed his mother and Edward in the hall,
they’d been speaking with Richard and Penny, they’d directed him in here.
His gaze swept about the room then stopped.
There was a young woman standing amidst his family,
like a blonde beacon of light amongst his dark-haired black-clad cousins. She
was an angel in a pale mauve dress.
Lust gripped had and firm in his stomach, an intense
physical attraction. He’d never experienced anything so instant before. But it
was a long time since he’d bedded a woman – far too long.
Her figure was a sublime balance of curves and
narrow waist. Her spine had a beautiful arch as it curved into the point where
her dress opened onto a full skirt.
Wheat-blonde hair escaped a dull dove-grey bonnet,
caressing her neck and drawing his eyes to a place he’d like to kiss.
She was speaking with animation her hands moving.
He moved closer and as if she sensed his gaze the
stranger turned and looked at him. In answer a lightning need struck his groin,
a sharp sudden pain. She was an English Rose among orchids, the sort of woman
he had seen nothing of abroad. Her skin was pale, with roses blooming in her cheeks,
and her eyes were a vivid beautiful blue, like the bluebells which bloomed in
spring, in the woods at Pembroke Place.
She was what he had longed for abroad and not even
known he’d been lacking.
His attention wholly captured, desire slipped into
his blood as his groin grew heavy with hunger.
This was what came from abstinence he supposed. He’d
never had a fancy for fair, fay women before. He did now.
She did not look the sort for a fling though,
certainly not the she-wolf type who stalked the foreign fields. His mind began
rattling through his guest list, but no name fit her, and her dull grey bonnet
and shawl did not speak of affluence. Who was she?
He smiled as he grew nearer, then realised he was
staring and shifted his gaze to the others in the group. It was then he noticed
Phillip as they turned to towards him. “My God.”
“Your Grace.”
“Phillip.” Lord, John hoped Phillip had not come
here with a motive. John did not wish to hear oily grovelling from an old
friend. His heart thumped in cold anger, not gladness. Then he looked at the
blonde and his breath caught as recognition whispered in his head. Kate.
About the Author
Jane is a writer of authentic,
passionate and emotional Historical and New Adult Romance, and a Kindle top 25
bestselling author.
She began her first historical novel
at sixteen, but a life full of adversity derailed her as she lives with the
restrictions of Ankylosing Spondylitis.
When she finally completed a novel
it was because she was determined not to reach forty still saying, I want to
write.
Now Jane is writing a Regency series
and contemporary, new adult, stories and she is thrilled to be giving her
characters life in others' imaginations at last.
You might think that Jane was
inspired to write by Jane Austen, especially as she lives near Bath in the
United Kingdom, but you would be wrong. Jane's favourite author is Anya Seton,
and the book which drew her into the bliss of falling into historical
imagination was 'Katherine' a story crafted from reality.
Jane has drawn on this inspiration
to discover other real-life love stories, reading memoirs and letters to
capture elements of the past, and she uses them to create more realistic plots.
'Basically I love history and I am
sucker for a love story. I love the feeling of falling in love; it's wonderful
being able to do it time and time again in fiction.'
Jane is also a Chartered Member of
the Institute of Personnel and Development in the United Kingdom, and uses this
specialist understanding of people to bring her characters to life.
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