Love With the Proper Husband (38 page)

“Than love with the proper husband.”

About the Author

New York Times
-bestselling author
Victoria Alexander
was an award-winning television reporter until she discovered fiction was much more fun than real life. She turned to writing full time and has never looked back. Her Avon romances include:
The Pursuit of Marriage
,
The Lady in Question
,
Love
with the Proper Husband
,
Her Highness, My Wife
,
The Prince’s Bride
,
The Husband List
,
The
Marriage Lesson
, and
The Wedding Bargain
.

Victoria grew up traveling the country as an Air Force brat and is now settled in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband, two teenaged children, and a bearded collie named Sam. She firmly believes housework is a four-letter word, there are no calories in anything eaten standing up, procrastination is an art form, and it’s never too soon to panic.

And she loves getting mail that doesn’t require a return payment. Write to her at: P.O. Box 31544, Omaha, NE 68131.

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Avon Romances
by Victoria Alexander

The Pursuit of Marriage

The Lady in Question

Love with the Proper Husband

Her Highness, My Wife

The Prince’s Bride

The Husband List

The Marriage Lesson

The Wedding Bargain

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. LOVE WITH THE PROPER HUSBAND Copyright © 2003 by Cheryl Griffin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound™.

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