Rescued By A Devil
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Around them, women smiled and men looked disapproving. Nathan cared nothing for that, only the faces of those grouped together at the end.
His brothers; Dimity; Forrest and Ella. Beth’s family. All smiling. Lady Yardly scowled. Walter looked bored.
Happiness almost choked him. He needed nothing but what he had right in this room and at his side. His love, his life.
Squeezing her fingers, he led her up the steps to curtsy before the king.
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Thank you for reading RESCUED BY A DEVIL. I hope you enjoyed Nathan and Beth’s story. Book #3 in the Deville Brothers series PROTECTED BY A DEVIL is available for pre-order now!
He was a man who liked order and control. No Highland Hoyden was wrestling that from him!
Michael Deville prides himself on being ordered, controlled and the voice of reason amongst his fiery Deville brothers. Which is all true, until Freya MacDougall storms into his life and completely shakes his composure.
Beautiful, infuriating, and reckless, Freya evokes emotions he’s never let himself feel before. She knows nothing of society or the correct way a lady should behave. In fact, she’s the exact opposite of everything he believed he wanted in a wife.
His protective instincts toward her demand he seeks out her secrets. She’s up to something, and Michael is determined to find out what. But protecting her from the enemy lurking in the shadows may be harder on his heart than he ever anticipated.
She will yield to no man, especially not one of society’s most eligible bachelors.
Freya has no wish to come to horrid London for the season and have her great aunt, the Duchess of Yardly, turn her into a lady. It is a hopeless proposition, she knows, but she acquiesces to her parents’ demands. Unbeknownst to them, her ulterior motive is to find her missing uncle Dougal, not secure a pale, boring Englishman as a husband.
She submits and allows the endless fittings and tutors, and tries to hide the longing for the green fields of her homeland. Remarkably, she finds solace in her nightly sparring with the darkly handsome Michael Deville. He’s wicked, insolent, and intriguing. He also, annoyingly, keeps turning up where he is not wanted!
The man is ruthless at being her protector, for some unknown reason. But Freya will not be thwarted, not when her uncle’s life is in peril.
She cares nothing for decorum, the ton’s whispers, nor the desire that flares between her and Michael. She’s not marriage material. Surely he knows that.
The greatest risk Freya and Michael face may not be from society, or the danger that lurks in the shadows, but from the love they battle to deny.
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Legend says the Sinclairs heightened senses are a result of a long ago pact between them and the powerful Raven family. To Honor and Protect is their creed, but the current Duke of Raven doesn’t make their task easy.
Arrogant and aloof, James, Duke of Raven, is determined to forge his own path and to hell with folk tales that his ancestors created. But when the breathtaking Eden Sinclair saves his life by risking her own, their past resurfaces, and with it comes the uncomfortable realization that they are linked by more than history.
Eden is forced to see the man behind the cool, haughty façade when she must use her special abilities to keep him safe. His suspicion of her soon turns into something else, something far more dangerous. Eden is torn between duty and self-protection. Does she have the strength to fight fate, in order to protect her own heart?
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Sensing Danger
“You're best to just spit it out, James. It can't be healthy to have all that angst roiling around inside a person.” Cam's voice carried to him.
Devon coughed and Eden muffled a giggle. James, however, growled softly and then ground his teeth. Neither action eased his spleen, so he spoke his mind.
“How dare you put your sisters and mine in danger!” James waited for the siblings to reach him. Each had left their position at his first word and now flanked him.
“They were never in any danger, Raven. In fact, my siblings and I did what we had to, to preempt just that,” Devon added.
“You allowed your sister to ride into danger, Sinclair—a woman!”
“And therefore, unable to protect herself, James?”
James turned at Eden's words; her face appeared calm, yet her eyes were not. The laughter had gone to be replaced by an anger that suddenly seemed a match for his.
“I did not say that, Eden—”
“Come, James, we are all interested in what you have to say.”
James swallowed. How had the conversation veered out of his control?
“Eden, it is our job to protect you, not plunge you recklessly into danger where—”
“I may break a fingernail, or perhaps my skirts would be dirtied?”
“If you will let me explain—”
“Dear Lord!” Eden gasped as if a sudden thought had occurred to her.
“What?” James looked up the road. Was there more trouble ahead?
“Imagine if I was all alone without one of my big male protectors and I had a stone in my slipper.”
Cam was now laughing so hard he was snorting. Sinclair just smiled, but it was wide enough to expose his teeth.
“I wonder, James”—his name should not sound so sweet spilling from her lips, especially considering she'd spat it out through her teeth—” if you could locate my needlework.” Eden looked around her as if it would magically appear.
“I did not mean to suggest you were unable to care for—”
Eden held up at hand to halt his words and once again, much to his surprise, he compiled. Her eyes flashed at him, cheeks flushed. She looked wild. A luscious wild virago, he thought, staring at her mouth. Hell, he wanted to close the distance and kiss her into silence.
“I understand your views, James, yet thankfully I have, for the most, forward-thinking brothers and do not have to adhere to them.”
“Thank you, darling.”
Ignoring Cam, she continued. “So perhaps for the remainder of this journey, you should endeavor to understand that I am different from the cosseted women of your acquaintance. Now if you will excuse me, my sister is calling me.”
Before James could react she had turned away from him, and he was sure she muttered “addlepated fool.”
Devon was still smiling, although he attempted to rein it in as James glared at him.
“A word of advice, Raven?”
“What.”
“My sisters do not take direction kindly. It is best to guide them as one would a bad-tempered animal. They are headstrong, intelligent, and spirited, and I would have them no other way, though I beg you do not alert them to that fact.”
“Sinclair, I would rather fall into a pit of venomous snakes than further acquaint myself with your siblings,” James snarled rudely. He then rode back to the head of their little caravan and refused to feel any guilt over his words. They had been wrong to take such risks, and he would not a
llow them to do so again while he and his sister were keeping their company.
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Wendy Vella is a bestselling author of historical and contemporary romances
such as the Langley Sisters and Sinclair and Raven series, with over a million copies of her books sold worldwide.
Born and raised in a rural area in the North Island of New Zealand, she shares her life with one adorable husband, two delightful adult children and their partners, four delicious grandchildren, and too many cantankerous farm animals.
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