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The Lady in Red
Viscount Winterton abducts a woman to protect her—but he kidnaps the wrong girl in red! The scandalous carriage dash leads to the ruin of Lady Florentia Hale-Burton’s reputation...and the viscount’s apparent demise.
Years later, Flora discovers her kidnapper is alive and as entrancingly handsome as she remembers! Disguised, she agrees to paint his portrait in an attempt to understand the man who’s haunted her fantasies. Is it revenge that has brought her this close to him again...or something even more reckless?
‘I am sure in your profession you must have some days in less than your petticoats, Miss Kensington.’
‘Miss…Kensington?’ Her voice sounded rusty, her fright evident in every single syllable, and she trembled as she took in breath. ‘I think…you are indeed…mistaken.’
‘Acacia Kensington?’ He heard the horror in his tone. ‘You are Miss Acacia Kensington, the paramour of my cousin Thomas, are you not?’
She shook her head hard, the long blonde hair falling loose now in a swathe across her shoulders and down over her chest.
‘I am not, sir. I am…Lady Florentia Hale-B…Burton…youngest daughter of…of the Earl of Albany.’ Each breath was raw with the effort of talking.
‘Hell.’ He could not believe it. ‘Hell!’ he repeated, and all the clues fell into place. The servant running down the road before the park, screaming. The ring. The priggish dress. Her voice.
He’d kidnapped the wrong woman—rendered her unconscious and subjected her to the sort of danger and terror she’d probably never manage to recover from.
For the first time in his life he was almost speechless.
I love characters with secrets from the past—and if that past is intertwined with danger then it is all the better!
James Waverley, Viscount Winterton, is back in England after ruining Lady Florentia Hale-Burton’s chances of marriage.
But the spark that was ignited between them six years ago is about to burst into flames…and this time Florentia has devised an ingenious plan to discover just who ‘Winter’ really is.
Ruined by the Reckless Viscount
Sophia James
SOPHIA JAMES lives in Chelsea Bay, on Auckland, New Zealand’s North Shore, with her husband, who is an artist. She has a degree in English and History from Auckland University and believes her love of writing was formed by reading Georgette Heyer in the holidays at her grandmother’s house. Sophia enjoys getting feedback at sophiajames.net.
Books by Sophia James
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Marriage Made in Hope
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Mistletoe Magic
Mistress at Midnight
Scars of Betrayal
The Wellingham Brothers
High Seas to High Society
One Unashamed Night
One Illicit Night
The Dissolute Duke
Stand-Alone Novels
Knight of Grace
Lady with the Devil’s Scar
Gift-Wrapped Governesses
‘Christmas at Blackhaven Castle’
Ruined by the Reckless Viscount
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