The Lady’s Companion
Carla Kelly
224 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0451186842
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1996
British LiteratureClean RomanceFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionHistorical RomanceRegencyRegency RomanceRomanceTraditional Regency
Miss Susan Hampton was a lady born and bred. She never imagined she would have to make her own way in the world. But that was before her feckless father gamed away the family estate. That was before her odious aunt turned her into an unpaid servant. Now Susan had fled that tyranny- only to wonder if she had leapt out of the frying pan into the fire.
In a remote country manor, Susan took the post of companion to the Dowager Lady Bushnell, whose fiery temper made a dragon seem sweet. But even more dangerous was the dowager’s boldly handsome bailiff, David Wiggins, whose blood was red, not blue, and who was everything a man could be except a gentleman. Desperately, Susan told herself that he was totally unsuitable as her suitor – even as this infuriatingly irresistible man awoke her as a woman and made her forget she was a lady….