“I have something to tell you,” Marietta said, nuzzling against his throat, enjoying the scent of him.
“You’re not opening a bordello?”
She smiled against his skin. “No, I’m having your baby.”
He stopped and looked down into her eyes, and the joy and elation in his face brought her to tears. And then he began to walk again, his arms tightening about her, as if she was the most precious thing in the world.
About the Author
SARA BENNETT has always had an interest in history, and to survive a series of mind-numbing jobs, she turned to writing historical romance. She lives in an old house with her husband and two children in the state of Victoria, Australia, where she tries to keep the house and garden tidy, but rarely succeeds—she’d rather be writing or reading.
Sara is hard at work on Francesca’s story, the final book in this sexy Victorian-era trilogy. And to the delight of her fans, this prolific author is also currently writing a paranormal series that will be out in Summer 2006, under the pseudonym Kaye Mackenzie.
You can write to her at www.sara-bennett.com (don’t forget the hyphen!) or Publicity Department, Avon Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
RULES OF PASSION. Copyright © 2005 by Sara Bennett. 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 HarperCollins e-books.
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