Engaged in Sin - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Sharon Page is the USA Today bestselling author of more than ten titles, including The Club and Engaged in Sin .  She is a two time consecutive winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award for her historical erotic romance and has twice received the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award. Married, with two children, Page holds an industrial design degree and has worked for many years in a structural engineering firm.  When not writing, she enjoys reading with her children, downhill skiing, and mountain biking.  Sharon Page loves to hear from readers and can be reached at www.SharonPage.com. Klappentext Beneath the cover of darkness! passion plays by its own rules. Lovely! poised Anne Beddington is in a desperate situation: on the run for a crime she didn't commit. Anne understands the wicked games she must play to survive-she has perfected her silky voice! practiced her feathery caress-but has she sufficiently mastered the art of seduction to become the mistress of the notorious Duke of March! Devon Audley? War has left him a recluse! but Anne is penniless! alone! and needs a powerful gentleman's protection. Anne has learned how to pleasure a man! yet when this sinfully handsome duke insists that intimate delights must be a two-way street! Anne cannot deny his sensual promise. Anne's delicate hands hold a healing touch! but it's her gentle kindness that opens the duke's eyes to the beauty around him and to a family who need him. Still! Anne is a mystery! and Devon intends to spend endless hours uncovering her secrets. When he finds out the terrible truth about the devious plot to brand her a villainess and endanger her life! saving Anne becomes his salvation. She has shown Devon how to live and love again. Now he will prove the power of his passion. Chapter One August 1815 The first time she’d tried to sell her body outside the Drury Lane theatre, Anne Beddington approached a handsome black-­haired gentleman, without knowing whom he truly was. He had been gentle and kind. And young—­perhaps only a few years her senior. Twenty-­one to her seventeen, she guessed. He smiled patiently at her even as he refused her offer. Somehow he’d known at once that she was a virgin, that she had never prostituted herself before. He pressed a couple of coins into her shaking hands, then he tipped up her chin to look at her. She’d never gazed directly into a gentleman’s eyes. He had violet irises—­a color so unearthly it gave him a fey air—­and thick black lashes. One look and she was bewitched. “Angel, this is not a thing you want to do,” he’d said grimly. “You are an innocent and are pretty despite all that grime. Take the money and use it to go home to your family.” He assumed she’d left her country family and run away to London, or that she had come to Town to find work, as so many girls had to do. Nothing could have been further from the truth for her. She had clutched the coins in her palm—­two gold sovereigns—­embarrassed to be given his charity when she’d been quite prepared to earn her money, but she had swallowed her pride, lifted the hems of her threadbare skirts, and scurried back to her mother’s bedside. The money had not lasted long. Her mother had needed so much laudanum for her pain. Eventually Anne had been forced to do what the gentleman had warned her not to. Now, five years later, she was about to do the very thing she had failed to do that first night outside the theatre. She was going to convince the Duke of March to bed her. This time she was not in London. And this time the duke was her captive quarry. She stood in his study in his hunting box—­a manor house in Leicestershire—­with her hand still on the door handle. He was sprawled out in front of her on the carpet, more than six feet of brawny, tanned, naked male. His long legs were splayed apart, his ...

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Page
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780440244912
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24491-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 174 mm x 29 mm