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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 Valerian’s time abroad. He’s the featured hero in my March 2009 release, The Viscount Claims His Bride. His is a homecoming story in which he’s spent the last nine years abroad in Vienna and other Eastern European locales working for the empire. Although he’s 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 Valerian’s other two friends who appear here.
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“Perhaps you were just waiting for the right partner. Please, the music awaits.” How fortuitous. This dance was empty, the only dance not spoken for, although it struck him as odd that she would sit out the waltz. Julian offered her his arm, reissuing his challenge. This time, she took it.
Julian swung them on the floor, marveling at the way she felt in his arms. His hand fit smoothly at the small of her back and she let him draw her to him as if they weren’t strangers. He liked the Viennese style of waltzing better than the version danced in England. Holding a woman so close, feeling her reactions as they moved from contrachecks to fleckerls, he could tell if she was worth bedding. This one definitely would be, Julian reflected, guiding them through a passing change at high speeds.
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