An Encounter at Hyde Park by Karen Hawkins

Author:Karen Hawkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical romance, regency romance, regency england, scandal, military hero, alpha male, ava stone, scottish hero, claudia dain, deb marlowe, karen hawkins
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing

Captain Griffin Reid’s blood was boiling. Honestly, he wasn’t even sure why, but that was often the case with Ellie MacLaren. From the time she could walk, she’d twisted his insides into a ball just as easily as she could crumple a piece of foolscap in her hand.

He’s a neighbor and an old friend of the family. Truly! That’s how she introduced him to that English girl? As an old friend of the family! Ellie was his bloody fiancée, no matter that he wasn’t happy about the fact. But that was beside the point. He was more than just a bloody friend of the family, and she well knew it.

And then to ask him to play spy for her, to gather information about some other man! Griff snorted. Once again, the MacLaren gall knew no bounds. And Ellie was the worst of them. Worse than her deceitful uncle. Worse than her managing father. Worse than her blackguard of a brother. Beyond all of that, she was - without a doubt - the single most maddening female in existence, and she always had been.

The way she made her flaxen curls bounce about her shoulders. The way she batted her pretty blue eyes at him. The way she could sound so innocent with that breathy voice of hers. The way…

Damn it all, she was even more beautiful than he’d remembered. Curse her for that.

“What is wrong with you?” his friend, the former Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Carrick, now the 1st Viscount Healeyfield, asked as Ellie and the English girl walked away from them.

Griff turned his attention from Ellie’s departing backside to meet Nate’s gaze. “We’d better find yer Miss Throssell. Shall we split up? Cover more distance, looking for a chit talking to squirrels?” What did that even mean? It was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever heard. Who talked to squirrels for God’s sake?

“Honestly, the prospect terrifies me.” Nate cringed. “I have a sneaking suspicion that Throssell has duped me somehow.”

Griff was starting to suspect the same thing. And being duped was something he was quite familiar with. Anyone who grew up alongside the MacLarens would be an expert at such things. Still, he couldn’t quite imagine that the rigid Colonel Throssell possessed a daughter who sat around conversing with squirrels and birds. And after everything they’d been though together, he couldn’t quite image that Throssell would foist such a girl upon Nate. He’d always treated Nate like a son, but then Niall MacLaren had done the same with Griff all those years ago too, hadn’t he?

“You going to tell me what’s bothering you? Or are you just going to stand there, glaring at the world?” Nate interrupted Griff’s thoughts.

“Nothing is bothering me.” Nothing more than had bothered him over the last decade, anyway.

“You didn’t seem happy at all to see your intended, who by the by, is hardly the child you described earlier today in my study.”

Griff supposed that was true, though all of his memories of her were as a child.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.