At twenty-three and a bluestocking to boot, Miss Lavender Brabant feels her chances of marriage have passed her by.But the problem isn't that she's never met a man to make her pulse race. It's that she's an admiral's daughter–and the man of her dreams is a shopkeeper's son. Barnabas Hammond has the looks and confidence to mingle with all circles of society.And to Lavender's amazement he is both well-read and a superlative swordsman. Could it be that this unlikely suitor is more suitable than he at first appears?
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Nicola Cornick. An Unlikely Suitor
“Just what are you offering, Miss Brabant? Do you wish to stick with blackmail, or revert to bribery instead?”
An Unlikely Suitor. Nicola Cornick
NICOLA CORNICK
THE STEEPWOOD SCANDAL:
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
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Lavender glared at him. “It was not my intention to bribe or to blackmail. You know that.”
Barnabas laughed. “Do I? It seems that I do not know you quite as well as I had imagined. But that can be remedied….”
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‘Miss Brabant, pray do not distress yourself.’ Barney sounded amused and rueful at the same time. ‘I am sure they need suffer no such injury—’
‘Well, but you cannot know that!’ Lavender said indignantly. She took a deep breath. ‘I have just the idea—I will take them back to Hewly with me and they may have a home there.’ The suggestion seemed to come from nowhere, and startled her almost as much as it seemed to surprise Barney. He stared at her through the dark.
