The Wild Baron

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Coulter is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the FBI Thrillers featuring husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. She is also the author—with J. T. Ellison—of the Brit in the FBI series. She lives in Sausalito, California. Klappentext "New York Times" bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents a special gift to her fans--a paperback original Regency romance full of mystery! magic and passion. The back cover includes an address for readers to write in to the author with comments on this title. The Mountvale Townhouse, Cavendish Square London, April 1811 ROHAN CARRINGTON, FIFTH BARON MOUNTVALE, BELLOWED at his brother’s portrait, ‘‘If you did this, George, and if you weren’t already dead, I’d thrash you within an inch of your bloody life. You little bounder. Were you even capable of such a thing?’’ Even as he yelled, Rohan felt a knot swell in his throat. George had been dead nearly a year. No, George couldn’t have done this. George was studious, a scholar with no interest in matters of the flesh. Rohan remembered once, a long time ago, their father had taken him and George to Madame Trillah’s on Cliver Street. At the sight of a very voluptuous redhead with magnificent breasts, George had blanched and then run half the way back to Mountvale Townhouse. After that, their father had left George alone. George had stuck to his maps and his studies. At least so Rohan had always believed. ‘‘No,’’ Rohan said, his voice low and deep now, his eyes still on his brother’s portrait, painted when George was eighteen. ‘‘I don’t believe this damned letter. It was another young blood using your name, wasn’t it? Did you really manage to bring yourself to the sticking point and ravish a young lady? Hell, did you even know what ‘ravish’ meant? ‘‘What does this man who calls himself her father want from me? Stupid question. Money, of course. Damn you, George?or rather damn the man who did this in your name.’’ George didn’t answer. The last Carrington to ruin a young lady and find himself shackled as a result had been Rohan’s great-grandfather, the fabulous Luther Morran Carrington. Old Luther would shake his head, according to Rohan’s grandfather, and mutter that he’d only tossed up Cora’s skirts one miserable time and he’d nailed her but good. He’d continued to nail Cora fourteen more times, eight of his children surviving into adulthood. Rohan pulled the bell cord behind the immaculate mahogany desk. His secretary, Pulver, must have been standing just outside the door, his face pressed against the wood, for he was in the library in but a moment, not a bit out of breath. He looked pale, gaunt, and put-upon, all three of which he deserved, because, as his friend David Plummy had told him, ‘‘It serves you right, slaving like you do for the Wild Baron. Just look at all those uncivilized hours he keeps, and he works you harder than a dog in all the hours in-between. What’s more, he beds more women than you and I will ever even speak to in our lives and everybody loves him for it, just like they love his mother and his father. He’s a philanderer. It isn’t fair, damn him. As for you, Pulver, you deserve to look like you’re on your last legs.’’ Pulver would shake his head mournfully, but the truth of it was that Pulver enjoyed himself immensely. Working for Baron Mountvale gave him a certain cachet. He’d even been set upon by several ladies trying to bribe him to get them into the baron’s bedchamber. Pulver came to a halt in front of the baron, who looked bilious and whose fair hair was standing on end. He was curious to know what news had sent his master over the edge. It wasn’t every day that the baron talked to himself. ‘‘Pulver, get my solicitor Simington over here. No, wait.’’ The baron broke off, staring at the portrait of his m...

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Coulter
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.1997
• EAN: 9780515120448
• ISBN: 978-0-515-12044-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Jove Paperbacks; Jove Paperbacks; Baron Novels
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature