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This story was so much fun! I loved working with a setting outside of England. Vienna is a gorgeous city with an intriguing history, just like the heroine, Sophie, and the hero, Julian, so the backdrop really fits their personalities.
I also enjoyed the opportunity to do something with Valerianâs time abroad. Heâs the featured hero in my March 2009 release, The Viscount Claims His Bride. His is a homecoming story in which heâs spent the last nine years abroad in Vienna and other Eastern European locales working for the empire. Although heâs a secondary character in Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss, it was fun to invent friends and experiences for him. I have great hopes too of doing other shorts in the future that feature Julian and Valerianâs other two friends who appear here.
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Julian raised his dark head over the back of the sofa where heâd taken refuge. âA thousand pardons, mademoiselle. It seems this room is indeed occupied.â
Recognition hit him as soon as the glib words were out of his mouth. What was she doing here? She couldnât possibly have followed him. Sheâd been gone when heâd returned to the veranda. In fact, if this was her destination, he was lucky to have gotten here beforehand. She must have gone through the ballroom, which would have slowed her down quite a bit. Still, such conjecture didnât explain what she was doing here to start with. This wasnât exactly a room one deliberately sought out.
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