No True Gentleman

Informationen zum Autor During her frequent travels through England, Liz Carlyle always packs her pearls, her dancing slippers, and her whalebone corset, confident in the belief that eventually she will receive an invitation to a ball or a rout. Alas, none has been forthcoming. While waiting, however, she has managed to learn where all the damp, dark alleys and low public houses can be found. Liz hopes she has brought just a little of the nineteenth century alive for the reader in her popular novels, which include the trilogy of One Little Sin, Two Little Lies , and Three Little Secrets , as well as The Devil You Know, A Deal With the Devil , and The Devil to Pay . Please visit her at LizCarlyle.com, especially if you're giving a ball. Klappentext A high society murder brings scandal to the lords and ladies of the ton and an unexpected desire to a pair of unlikely lovers in this powerful and passionate novel.Lady Catherine Wodeway knows that no true gentleman would presume to kiss a lady senseless without a proper introduction—not even to save her life. Yet somehow, Maximilian de Rohan’s dark good looks, brooding manner, and mysterious past make it all too easy for Catherine to forget that she’s a lady. Although Max is stunned by Catherine's beauty, honesty, and charm, he knows that getting mixed up with a noblewoman can end badly, especially when her brother is a murder suspect. But when Catherine stumbles onto the key to Max's murder investigation and unwittingly places herself in the killer's hands, he will risk everything to pull her out of danger and into the arms of love. Leseprobe Chapter One A true gentleman must take care never to seem dark and mysterious. -- LORD CHESTERFIELD, 1776, The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette Terrible accidents can befall anyone who plunges into the unknown. Catherine knew that all too well. And yet the fog which lay before her, slate gray and cloying, did not give her pause as it should have done. Instead, she pressed heedlessly forward, allowing the damp to envelop her like cold, wet wool. Orion's rapid hoof beats were muted by the soft earth as she mindlessly urged him into the thatch of rhododendron ahead. Much of her behavior had been just so of late, impelled not by logic but by an inexplicable need to flee something which lay behind, with little thought to what risk might lie ahead. She had let grief and confusion drive her from Gloucestershire. Then into London. But perhaps she should not have permitted it to drive her into this fog alone. Perhaps she should have waited until full daylight, instead of rushing into the distant reaches of Hyde Park before dawn had scarce broken. But as usual, the silence inside the house -- inside her heart -- had been suffocating. With an impatient signal, she urged Orion on, vaguely considering how her brother Cam would scold if he learned of her recklessness. Suddenly, a noise sounded in the fog ahead. Sharp yet muffled, like the snapping of a twig beneath a layer of wet leaves. And then she saw him -- at the precise instant Orion did. Like a pagan warlock summoning up a dragon's breath, the big man loomed up before them, his long black cloak swirling in the mist, his height eclipsing the path beyond. With a shrill cry, her horse reared and spun right, pawing wildly at the mist. Floating from the fog, the man snared the gelding's bridle, dragging down his head as if the beast were little more than a willful pony. Orion's eyes flashed with white, his hindquarters wheeled nervously, kicking up divots of turf. But with relentless calm, the tall man held his head. At last, the horse gave a final snort of censure and yielded. For a long, uncomfortable moment, silence held sway in the gloom. "Your pardon, ma'am," the man finally said, his voice like gravel. "I fear the dampness muffled your approach." ...

About the author

During her frequent travels through England, Liz Carlyle always packs her pearls, her dancing slippers, and her whalebone corset, confident in the belief that eventually she will receive an invitation to a ball or a rout. Alas, none has been forthcoming. While waiting, however, she has managed to learn where all the damp, dark alleys and low public houses can be found. Liz hopes she has brought just a little of the nineteenth century alive for the reader in her popular novels, which include the trilogy of One Little Sin, Two Little Lies, and Three Little Secrets, as well as The Devil You Know, A Deal With the Devil, and The Devil to Pay. Please visit her at LizCarlyle.com, especially if you're giving a ball.

Product details

• Authors: Liz Carlyle, Carlyle Liz
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2014
• EAN: 9781501109997
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-0999-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary