To Kiss A Spy

Zusatztext "Another genre winner from Feather! done with skill! sensuality! and brio." - Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Jane Feather is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of To Kiss a Spy, The Widow's Kiss, The Least Likely Bride, The Accidental Bride, The Hostage Bride, A Valentine Wedding, The Emerald Swan, and many other historical romances. She was born in Cairo, Eygpt and grew up in New Forest, in the south of England. She began her writing career after she and her family moved to Washington D.C., in 1981. She now has over six million copies of her books in print. Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather has won legions of fans and critical accolades for her sweeping romances portraying a unique blend of sizzling seduction and dangerous intrigue. In this first of two romances featuring two unconventional sisters whose quest to solve the mystery surrounding their lives puts each of them in the path of a dangerously irresistible hero! Jane Feather tells the story of a daring young widow and a master spy engaged in a duel of wits--and seduction--to uncover a dark secret.... To Kiss a Spy Lady Pen Bryantson had been caught red-handed looking for clues among her mother-in-law's papers. But the mystery she sought to uncover only deepened with the sudden appearance of a man whose mere presence sent shivers of excitement coursing through her. What could this dangerously seductive man who moved with a courtier's charm and brandished an assassin's skill want with someone as ordinary as she was? But to Owen D'Arcy! the bewitching young woman he'd been assigned to ensnare was anything but ordinary. With a single kiss! the sophisticated spy found that he'd been unexpectedly disarmed. Determined to seduce her on his own terms! Owen offered Pen a devil's bargain she had no choice but to accept. Now they would both go undercover! only to find themselves drawn into a world of deception and double cross! where anyone could be the deadliest of enemies--and their own uncontrolled passion the most dangerous threat of all. Chapter One London, December 1552 “What I propose is a matter of some refinement, my dear sir. A scheme of some complexity.” Antoine de Noailles paused to lift a silver chalice to his lips. He drank with an assessing frown, then nodded his satisfaction and gestured to his companion to drink from his own chalice. He waited to see if the wine found favor with his guest before he continued speaking. “Yes, a complex scheme, a two-pronged scheme. Very neat.” Noailles smiled happily. “One perfectly suited to your own particularly delicate methods, Owen.” Owen d’Arcy contented himself with a raised eyebrow. Antoine de Noailles, the French ambassador to the English court of the young king Edward VI, delighted in taking his time when revealing to his master spy an intrigue that he considered especially ingenious. Owen d’Arcy was a tall man, lithe and slender, and when necessary as deadly as the rapier in the chased silver scabbard at his waist. His black eyes were never still, they missed nothing, and the fertile brain behind them ceaselessly absorbed, sorted, and acted upon the information they transmitted. He knew now without being told that the ambassador was about to drop a choice plum in his lap. He sipped his wine and waited. “I believe that the king is dying,” Noailles said calmly. “His Privy Council think to keep the truth of the young man’s health a state secret, but . . .” He shrugged and smiled at the absurdity. “The issue, of course, is what happens on the boy’s death.” “The crown goes to Mary,” Owen said, his voice surprisingly dark and rich with a musical lilt to it. “It certainly should,” the ambassador agreed. “King Henry so decreed it. After Edward, if the boy has no issue, Mary is next in line, Elizabeth is second....

Product details

• Authors: Jane Feather
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780553583076
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58307-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 176 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Get Connected Romances; Kiss Trilogy; The Kiss Trilogy
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature