Lady Isobel's Champion by Carol Townend

Author:Carol Townend [Townend, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781460315712
Google: 2ekhLeypUGUC
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

My dear Isobel,

I send you greetings and blessings, and pray that you are in good health. Your father has instructed me to write to you so that you may share in our great news. We are happy to tell you that I am with child.

God willing, the baby will be born in January—

Isobel found herself staring at the word January. January. Angelina was to have a baby in January!

These tidings were bittersweet. For as long as Isobel could remember, she had longed for more family. She had always wanted a brother or sister—partly to ease her mother’s distress, and partly for herself. Her years at the convent had been marked by the making and losing of friends, as other girls first arrived at St Foye’s, and then returned to the world to be married. Isobel had yearned for someone with whom she might feel a particular bond, a bond that would last.

If Angelina comes safely to term, I shall have more family!

Angelina was younger than her mother. Stronger. There was every reason to hope that she might be swiftly and safely delivered of her child. In January.

Her eyes prickled.

‘Isobel?’ Lucien touched her arm. ‘Is it ill news? You look very pale.’

A brief, bright flash of joy ran through her. I am to have a brother or sister!

‘Isobel?’

‘One moment, my lord, I have not finished.’ Quickly, she read the rest...

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