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“Have I not? No, you are quite right. Very well.” And with that he dropped to one knee and, still holding her fan, spread his arms wide. “My darling girl, will you do me the honor to accept this humble—”

But without waiting to hear another word, Jessica flung herself into his outstretched arms. The results might well have been disastrous, but this time Sir Brian, having come to know his impulsive lady rather well, was not caught off his guard. With a delighted laugh he caught her easily, scooped her up into his arms, snatched up his jacket from the stone bench, and still chuckling, carried her back into the house as though she had been but a featherweight. And he did it all without so much as bending a single delicate stick of the elegant Oriental fan.

About the Author

A fourth-generation Californian of Scottish descent, Amanda Scott is the author of more than fifty romantic novels, many of which appeared on the
USA Today
bestseller list. Her Scottish heritage and love of history (she received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Mills College and California State University, San Jose, respectively) inspired her to write historical fiction. Credited by
Library Journal
with starting the Scottish romance subgenre, Scott has also won acclaim for her sparkling Regency romances. She is the recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award (for
Lord Abberley’s Nemesis
, 1986) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. She lives in central California with her husband.

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

Copyright © 1985 by Lynne Scott-Drennan

Cover design by Mimi Bark

978-1-4804-1568-3

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