Just like the one each of them found on their holiday by the sea.
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Heiress Anne Baxter seeks a repairing lease by the sea after she’s left standing at the altar for the second time. To her utter mortification, the best man, Augustus, Duke of Tindale, has been invited to a house party at a nearby estate, and comes upon Anne trying to enjoy some solitude along the shore.
Augustus believes Anne is far better off without the buffoon who jilted her, but knows polite society will hold the lady accountable for the failed wedding,… weddings, rather. He proposes to show Anne marked attention at the house party, in hopes that a ducal suitor will prove to the gossips just how lovely Anne is. Alas for Augustus’s brilliant scheme, the best laid plans of dukes of damsels, oft go awry!
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Anne gathered up her hems and was waiting for the most recent wave to recede when she noticed that a man stood two yards from her wayward hat. His dark hair riffled in the breeze, and he, too, had discarded boots and stockings.
Anne’s next impression was one of size. This fellow was tall even standing barefoot, and he bristled with muscle and confidence. Not a farm lad, not with that fine lawn shirt and those exquisitely tailored riding breeches. He’d draped his coat over his arm—a beautiful dark blue merino—and his cravat sported a touch more lace than strictest fashion dictated.
Anne shaded her eyes with her hand as the intruder sketched her a slight bow.
“Miss Baxter, good day.”
Oh, ye gods and little fishes. That Hades-at-his-forge voice, which all the public school education in England could not make into a gentlemanly drawl.
“Tindale,” Anne said, her minuscule store of pleasure in the day washing straight out to sea. “Of all the dukes in all of creation, why must you be the one to disturb my solitude?”
He snatched up her hat and tossed it to her with a flick of his wrist. Anne caught it, though she nearly had to give up her grip on her skirts to do so.
“Your lucky day, Miss Baxter, and before you go storming off in high dudgeon, allow me to say that you’re better off without him, and he would have bored you silly.”
That was not what Anne had expected Tindale to say, but then, Tindale was a quiet sort, new to his title, and he seldom said much of anything.
“We are on a beach, Your Grace. High dudgeon with my skirts bunched up and my feet bare is beyond me.” To say nothing of a nose likely turning redder by the moment.
Anne waded free of the water and let those skirts drop. “You truly think I’m better off in disgrace?”
“Not in disgrace,” he said. “Free, and how I envy you that privilege. You must be profoundly relieved not to face a lifetime of humoring Lord Corbett’s endless conceits. Let’s walk, shall we?”
The beach was in plain sight of Rose Cottage, where Anne and Helen were biding, and also visible from the inn itself. Walking with Tindale would in no way be improper.
Nor, Anne suspected, would it be wise. He’d offered her the one gift she’d never thought to have from Lord Corbett’s best man and the Season’s most eligible peer—the truth.
“I am mortally relieved,” she said, taking the duke’s arm, “and I cannot muster even a scintilla of guilt about that. What brings you to the shore, Your Grace, and how long are you staying?”
He ambled along, as relaxed as if they promenaded around a drawing room at Devonshire House. “Not long enough, Miss Baxter. When I contemplate what awaits me back in Mayfair, I must admit I’m not staying at the shore nearly long enough.”
“That makes two of us.”
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Nothing happens in London without Graham Wynchester knowing. His massive collection of intelligence is invaluable to his family’s mission of aiding those most in need. So when he deciphers a series of coded messages in the scandal sheets, Graham’s convinced he must come to a royal’s rescue. But his quarry turns out not to be a princess at all… The captivating Kunigunde de Heusch is anything but a damsel in distress, and the last thing she wants is Graham’s help.