by May Burnett
Rook could not help wishing that his father had sworn a similar oath.
“The age difference would bother me, I admit,” Henry Beecham said. “Eight years is rather a lot, especially if the woman is the elder.”
“If it were the man eight years older, it would be considered entirely normal,” Charlotte pointed out, but without great conviction.
“Because men can sire children until old age, but a woman’s best childbearing years are before thirty,” Lady Tembley said trenchantly. “How could the Duke not have considered this, in arranging the marriage of his heir?”
“Perhaps he considered the fact that he has three other sons to carry on the line,” Rook said. “Forgive me, I need to think this over in privacy, and I find my appetite has deserted me.” He put down his napkin and left the Golden Salon under the sympathetic and shocked eyes of the others.
He badly needed to break something. In another’s house that was not easily accomplished, so he went outdoors and got some shooting practice instead. He imagined that the target was whoever in the Foreign Office had suggested this ridiculous match. He would discover the fellow’s name soon enough.
Rook hit the bull’s eye every single time.
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Contents
The Impostor Debutante
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
My Last Marchioness
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Epilogue
The End
The Sister Quest
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
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