This Rake of Mine by Elizabeth Boyle

Author:Elizabeth Boyle [Boyle, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Man-Woman Relationships, Love Stories, Historical, England, Historical Fiction, Regency
ISBN: 9780060783990
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2005-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

Jack led his guests down the trail to the folly. Better this, he knew, than let them have free run on his property. He didn't think the girls had anything to do with their mysterious and unlikely arrival into his life. Pippin's father, the Earl of Stanbrook, was too horse mad to ever be wrapped up in the sort of havey-cavey business that came naturally to Thistleton Park, while Tally and Felicity's father, Lord Langley, was renown in the right circles for his loyalty to the Crown.

Still, he couldn't shake the warning from last night.

I have it on good authority that we are being watched.

That left only Miss Porter… and how convenient was it that their horse had turned up with a missing shoe? Sounded to him like a plan concocted by a desperate woman.

How desperate? he wondered as he looked over at her.

He yawned, then took a deep breath of fresh air. He needed to keep a clear head today, but it was nearly impossible when he was dead tired. He couldn't remember the last time he'd gotten a decent night's sleep.

And every night more that Dash didn't arrive with his shipment, it put everything connected to Thistleton Park at risk.

In truth, the only thing keeping him awake at the moment was the chattering voices behind him. How was it that he'd forgotten how young ladies talked incessantly? His head was fairly spinning from the never-ending volleys the girls put back and forth to each other as he led them down the path toward Albin's Folly.

Miss Porter, he noted, was singularly quiet. And had been most of the morning.

It was as if she was weighing some great body of evidence, as if she thought him responsible for their current predicament.

Well, she was either the world's most accomplished actress or mad.

He decided mad would be the best conclusion. He didn't want to consider what would have to be done if she had been sent to ferret out the enigma that was Thistleton Park.

What he needed to do was discover Miss Porter's secrets. He glanced over his shoulder and realized the best place was to start with the allies he knew he had.

"Is it true you can see the coast of France from the top of the tower?" called out Tally, pushing past her teacher and coming up to his elbow.

He glanced down at her and smiled. "Yes, and since the weather is finally clear, perhaps you would like to take a peek at old Boney himself."

"Bother the man," she replied. "I detest him. Father brought us to an audience with him years ago, during the peace in '01. He was a cocky, smug fellow then and even more loathsome now."

"Who's loathsome?" asked Felicity, as she joined them.

"Bonaparte," her sister said.

Felicity's pert lips curled. "Odious, awful man. Whatever are you doing discussing him?"

"Jack suggested we look for him from the top of the tower, since the weather is clear. I think the vista will make a great sketch."

Felicity looked singularly unimpressed. But Jack had to imagine he knew a subject that would get the girl chattering once again.

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