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MILLS & BOON
Note to Readers
Chapter One. Santa Monica Beach, an afternoon in May 1889
Near Folkestone, England, at the same moment, May 1889
Chapter Two. London, nine weeks and a dozen and a half ball gowns later..
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six. Eleven a.m., September 1, 1889. The grand entry at Fencroft House
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Epilogue. Derbyshire, one month later
MILLS & BOON
From American heiress...
...to his convenient countess!
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“Perhaps, and who could blame him? But really, our brother ought to have hired someone more capable as our accountant. What did Mr. Robinson really have to recommend himself other than being Oliver’s chum from Cambridge? I didn’t think so much of it at the time but looking at it now I ought to have. The pair of them laughed and indulged in spirits when they worked on the ledgers.”
He did not know that, but it hardly surprised him. Oliver sought gaiety above most everything else. No doubt that pursuit had hastened his death. Doctor after doctor had warned him to leave the caustic air of London for the sake of his lungs. He would not consider it because he found country life dull. He used to claim all the charming, lively ladies lived in town and that was where he would reside.
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