Too Sinful to Deny by Erica Ridley

Author:Erica Ridley [Ridley, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, Historical Fiction, Smuggling, Smugglers, General, Romance, Historical, Secrecy, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9781420109948
Google: wdUsbzMBzzAC
Amazon: B004IWR3AG
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2011-03-31T21:00:00+00:00

The inexorable rising of the sun didn’t calm the anxiety itching beneath Susan’s skin. She sat at her escritoire, scratching a fingernail against the scarred wood. Was Mr. Bothwick all right? Should she have stayed with him? What had he been doing there, anyway?

Although dressed, coiffed, and breakfasted, she couldn’t quite work up the nerve to exit her bedchamber to find out. Particularly if this time she really would run into Mr. Bothwick’s ghost. She shivered.

Had the still-living Mr. Bothwick been hurt? Had he been caught? Had he—Susan’s spine snapped up straight—had he been in league with whoever belonged to those footsteps, and simply took advantage of an opportunity to send a frightened young lady back up to her room?

Her forehead thunked forward onto the hard surface of the escritoire. Of course.

She was so slow sometimes. Hadn’t she just decided (all right, re-decided) that he wasn’t to be trusted? Hadn’t she just wondered if he were not in fact responsible for his dead brother’s . . . deadness? Mr. Bothwick .had just happened to show up in the rock garden, alone, in the middle of the night, directly following her mention of a third grave. Which meant—whether he was in collusion with the others or not—he had definitely not been colluding with her.

Next weekend could not come soon enough. She had to get out of this town while she still could.

Susan snatched a sheet of parchment from a yellowed pile and dipped a pen in a clotted inkwell. Although they still hadn’t deigned to reply to her previous missive, her first letter was going straight to her parents.

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