Stolen Encounters With The Duchess (Julia Justiss).

Она предпочла бы сгореть в его присутствии, чем тосковать в его отсутствии.

Фейт Уэллингфорд Эверс, герцогиня Эшедон, устала от бесконечных сплетен высшего общества о ее недостатках и изменах ее покойного мужа. Однажды ночью, ища спасения, она подверглась нападению бандитов, но ее спас неожиданный человек из ее прошлого!

Поднявшись из нищеты сироты до члена парламента, Дэвид Таннер Смит больше не был тихим мальчиком, которого когда-то знала Фейт. С их первым захватывающим поцелуем их старая дружба превратилась во взрывоопасную смесь запретных встреч и недозволенного желания...

Julia Justiss' enchanting new historical rom-com Stolen Encounters with the Duchess will thrill Readers of Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Sarah MacLean. Their hearts are melting as they are swept up into a breathtaking tale of forbidden love, harrowing secrets, and stiff upper lips.

Set in 1780s England, this witty romance centers on Faith, Countess Wellingford-Evers: a failed matchmaker and should-be duke's wife who seems destined to spend the rest of her days pitying herself and wondering what might have been. Captive to selfish woes-pining for the accolades she craves, afraid that her fortune is destined for hit-and-miss investments, agonizing for her exiled lover, and haunted by dark, ancient memories that lead nowhere except to the gallows-she finds salvation via a string of conspiring misfortunes, all culminating in violent attack from unknown assailants. Flashbacks bring her back from the brink, evocative memories connecting her to David "Tanner" Smith: a once humble orphan now Member of Parliament; a decade adopted son-to a wealthy, vile earl and brokenhearted duchess; lover to friend, confidant, right-hand man; and hero pulled from certain death. Above all, lover-by-night--to heights Faith never dreamed she'd chase. Madness? Oh dear, yes impractical, impossible dreams, oh no! Two pointedly flawed souls drawn together by a hungry heart sated only by danger, passion, and searing flashes of mutual understanding; heads full of secrets and hearts pondering only the future.

Written with pure female charm, Stolen Encounters drowns the reader not in the doldrums of shallow sentimentality, but in a bellyful of laughter, deftly shifted between the coarse life of the political world and the rough-hewn beauty of a roguish romantic adventure. Public is as inquisitive as private, spanning everything from rancorous gossip, to Forbidden duets performed at a symphony of love, to and adventurous runaway nuptials journey that takes them from London to the Mediterranean, back again on foot through outcast and hidden paths, venturing past sarcastic snide comments into the murky underbelly of their not-quite-morally challenged relationship.

Impeccable background and sweet IF plot interwoven delicately with raucously humorous writing, supporting characters fully fleshed and thoroughly wrapped up in their myriad complexities, Julia Justiss has created a clever and delightfully thrilling tale o love most beautifully expressed in touch-screen worthy displays of raw emotion through wide-eyed expression and raw conversations. One Tanner goes looking for adventure and finds something much more original (and dangerous) than the continent, he discovers a soul in desperate need of love and rejoicing it's found a home in his golden heart. As Seduced, Captivated, and Charmed readers are transported into this world of our galactic hero and irresistible, original heroine, they too discover there's less that makes good love letters, and more that fuels real life.