ISBN-13: 978-1420108484
Publisher: Kensington
Release Date: Sept 1
Pages: 352
Retail Price: $4.99
Lady of Scandal - Tina Gabrielle
Victoria Ashton has intelligence and ambition—qualities of little value to most marriage-minded gentlemen of the ton. Her own father has no idea of Victoria’s hidden life as an anonymous trader in London’s stock market. But her hopes of independence are shattered when her father’s enemy, Blake Mallory, assumes Charles Ashton’s debts and presents Victoria with a stark choice: live with him as his mistress for one year, or condemn her family to bankruptcy.
A GENTLEMAN WITH RESOLVE
For years Blake has dreamed of justice, and his scheme becomes all the sweeter when he sees the beauty that Victoria has become. Scoundrel he may be, but Blake will not force anyone into his bed. He intends to entice Victoria, one wicked kiss at a time. But with a woman as spirited and sensual as Victoria, seduction works both ways—and a plan rooted in revenge can blossom into a scandalous passion…
Excerpt
1812 England
“If you’ll allow yourself, you’ll acknowledge the attraction between us,”
Blake said.
Victoria shook her head. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Amusement flickered in his eyes. “Liar. I saw the way you were watching
me in the ring. Studying my body, comparing it to others in your mind.
You looked excited, eager, hungry.”
She swallowed hard, her senses leaping to life as he traced the edge of
her jawbone with his finger, then down her neck and along her exposed
collarbone.
“No,” she croaked, but her voice sounded weak, unconvincing to her
own ears.
“Oh, yes. It took all my self-restraint not to swing you up into my arms,
carry you away, and have my way with you in the closest private corner I
could find.”
She felt her face redden. “Don’t speak to me that way.”
No man had ever spoken to her so brazenly. Not Jacob. Not any of her
prior suitors. A lady should never hear such shocking words, not even if
there was a hint of truth to them.
His eyes traveled to the wildly beating pulse at her neck. “There’s no
reason to deny our feelings over the course of the year. We can share
great pleasure, Victoria, if only you will allow it.”
His gaze lowered to her mouth and lingered, and she sensed he intended
to kiss her. She should have slammed her bedroom door in his face. But
when his eyes darkened with desire, when his head lowered, and when
she felt his breath against her lips, she didn’t turn away. Didn’t protest.
Didn’t move.
ISBN-13:978-0843962963
Publisher: Leisure
Release Date: Aug 25
Pages: 320
Retail Price: $6.99
What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Considering how few of Queen Victoria’s Londoners knew of it, the great Romanesque fortress was dreadfully imposing, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met the powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadow, the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She knew simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow-white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gifts. But this arched stone doorway offered a portal to a new life, an education far from the convent—and an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death….
