Imperfect Pretence

by Imperfect Pretence (retail) (epub)

  Before Max could protest, or do more than wring his hand warmly, he had run lightly down the steps, climbed into his carriage and driven away at speed.

  ‘What’s that?’ Constance asked, joining him. ‘I thought your cousin was staying.’

  ‘So did I,’ Max replied. ‘Apparently we are to stay here instead. I wonder what this is?’ He opened the package carefully, and scanned the papers that it contained. He looked at his new wife, his eyes aglow. ‘Connie, it’s the deeds of this house. Alistair has given us Beacon Tower as his wedding gift.’

  Constance looked down at the papers that he was holding. ‘Oh Max, such generosity; and I didn’t have chance to thank him.’

  ‘He didn’t want that,’ Max replied, putting a protective arm around her shoulders. ‘We can thank him later; for now, let’s go back inside. After all, it is our home.’

  By the same author

  His Lordship’s Gardener

  The Grand Tour

  The Squire’s Daughter

  Derbyshire Deception

  Fallen Woman

  The Wild Marauder

  The Squire and the Schoolmistress

  The Adventuress

  The Other Miss Frobisher

  A Gift for a Rake

  Lady of Lincoln

  Clerkenwell Conspiracy

  Jilted

  Ruined

  Spoiled

  Theodora in Love

  A Country Gentleman

  © Ann Barker

  First published in Great Britain 2015

  ISBN 978 0 7198 1843 1 (epub)

  ISBN 978 0 7198 1844 8 mobi)

  ISBN 978 0 7198 1845 5 (pdf)

  ISBN 978 0 7198 1560 7 (print)

  Robert Hale Limited

  Clerkenwell House

  Clerkenwell Green

  London EC1R 0HT

  www.halebooks.com

  The right of Ann Barker to be identified as

  author of this work has been asserted by her

  in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and

  Patents Act 1988