Notorious Eliza

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Barbara Monajem. Notorious Eliza

Notorious Eliza. Barbara Monajem

London, March 1800

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Patrick was looking for an upright woman to become his wife and stepmother to his daughter, not a siren like Eliza Dauntry! But Eliza had aroused his desire ever since he saved her scandalous self-portrait from the auction house. The chance of an affair with the alluring widow was irresistible, but this notorious woman could also turn out to be his perfect bride…

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She pleated her apron between her hands. “It’s the mother, sir. The old lord hired her to paint, er, up at the Court…” Her voice drifted unhappily.

“Lord Lansdowne hired a woman to cover the improper murals in the ballroom?” Obscene was more like it. No wonder Mrs. Higgins was so perturbed. She had never seen the ballroom, but she’d heard enough from servants at Lansdowne Court to fire a lurid imagination. Even so, he doubted her imaginings came even close to what had actually taken place there in Uncle Lionel’s heyday.

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