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Informationen zum Autor Edith Layton loved to write. She wrote articles and opinion pieces for the New York Times and Newsday , as well as for local papers, and freelanced writing publicity before she began writing novels. Publisher’s Weekly called her “one of romance’s most gifted authors.” She received many awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romantic Times , and excellent reviews and commendations from Library Journal , Romance Readers Anonymous , and Romance Writers of America. She also wrote historical novels under the name Edith Felber. Mother of three grown children, she lived on Long Island with her devoted dog, Miss Daisy; her half feral parakeet, Little Richard; and various nameless pond fish in the fishness protection program. Klappentext The "USA Today" bestselling author of the wildly popular Botany Bay series delivers this enchanting stand-alone novel! set in Regency England! in which a staid gentleman tries to win the heart of a bewitching pirate. Original. Zusammenfassung After the popular success of her Botany Bay and "C" series! USA Today bestselling author Edith Layton brings us her first stand alone novel in years that is sure to enchant Layton fans everywhere. A proper gentleman! Constantine! Lord Wylde! proposes to a similarly proper young woman. It's a practical proposal that pleases both parties....Until the night Constantine finds an old pistol–packing pirate waiting for him at home. The old man claims that Constantine was promised at birth to his granddaughter. Constantine travels to Cornwall to unearth the truth and! once there! discovers the family fortune is the shameful result of piracy and highway robbery. And he meets the young woman his father promised him to at birth. Lisabeth is beautiful and well–educated! but because of her unusual upbringing! she's unaware of the proper behavior of young ladies in the ton. As she has always been enamored by stories of Constantine's swashbuckling ancestors! she's half inclined to fall in love with him too! but she finds him nothing like them! He's too staid! and he finds her too Original.... until they fall into each other's arms and realize that they may have been meant for each other after all. ...
