It Begins with a Kiss (12 page)

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“Well-known contemporary author Dreyer’s second in the Drake’s Rakes series is pure joy to read! Dreyer displays her phenomenal sense of atmosphere in an emotionally powerful and beautifully rendered love story. Using the traditional marriage-of-convenience theme but twisting and turning the plot, the consummate storyteller makes the conventional unconventional. Combining beautifully crafted, engaging characters with an intriguing mystery adds depth.”—
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His greatest battle is just beginning…

Captain Harry Lidge has done his duty. After losing too many good men on the battlefield, he’s ready to put his responsibilities behind him and live a life free of care. But first he has one last mission: find out what the most outrageous woman in London, the same woman who betrayed him nearly a decade earlier, is concealing, before her secrets take down the crown.

Her heart is the only thing she won’t risk…

Surrounded by ardent admirers and a few loyal friends, Lady Kate Seaton glides through the ton on a confection of couture gowns and bon mots. No one suspects that beneath her lighthearted façade Kate hides a sorrow so scandalous she’ll do anything to keep it hidden. But only when she trusts Harry with the truth and only when he trusts her with his heart can they stop the villains who are all too willing to kill Kate to attain their ultimate goal: to destroy England.

Contents

Title Page

Welcome

It Begins with a Kiss

An Excerpt from
Barely a Lady

Also by Eileen Dreyer

Copyright

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Eileen Dreyer

Excerpt from
Barely a Lady
copyright © 2010 by Eileen Dreyer

Cover design by Aleta Rafton. Cover copyright © 2012 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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ISBN 978-1-4555-1931-6