Belle by Bancroft Blair

Author:Bancroft, Blair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical romance, regency romance, spicy romance, regency historical, regency courtesan, regency darkside, regency wildside
Publisher: Blair Bancroft

The next morning Juliana sat at her elaborately inlaid marquetry desk and retrieved a sheaf of papers from a locked drawer. Papers compiled by agents provided by Darius Wolfe. Papers that contained carefully prepared lists of all the single gentleman in the ton, including approximate age and their direction, not only in London but at their country residences. Another list presented the names of the wealthiest unmarried men of the merchant class. A third list, married gentleman of both classes who were known to have a roving eye. Juliana had paid a considerable amount of money for these lists and considered them priceless. Without them, she would be tossing her girls into a heartless sea, sink or swim. With them—Juliana smiled for the first time since Darius had stormed out of her apartments—with them she could arrange her students’ lives, offer them a near certainty of joining the world of London’s most renowned courtesans.

Using her most precise penmanship, Juliana wrote out invitations to a dozen young gentleman, all single, for an evening three weeks hence. Gabriel, Viscount Ashford was one of them.

On Friday evening, 23 August, I shall have the pleasure of chaperoning three highly attractive young ladies to Vauxhall Gardens, where we will dine in a private box in the pavilion. If you should pass by between the hours of eight and ten, I will be delighted to make them known to you.”

Juliana, Lady Rivenhall

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