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Pocket Star, June 19, 2007
ISBN 1416527141
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Never Lie to a Lady, by Liz Carlyle
The notorious Marquis of Nash is a creature of the night;
his wealth and his title provide but a tenuous entrée into polite
society. With his Eastern European manners and dark elegance, Nash
tempts women even as he tempts the scandalmongers. Rumors abound of the
men he has bankrupted and the hearts he has broken. But when Nash
leaves his lair for a rare foray into the ton, and enjoys a
moment of heated passion with a mysterious lady in the dark, he develops
an obsession which will lead him into the hellish world of smugglers,
spies, and political intrigue as the Continent edges nearer to war.
Xanthia Neville has arrived in London to expand her
family’s most lucrative business holding—Neville Shipping. With her
brother Rothewell all too happy to waste his life in debauchery, Xanthia
opens up shop in London’s grimy Docklands, and sets about expanding the
family fortune, all the while flaunting the ton’s silly
strictures about how a lady ought to behave. But London, she soon
learns, is not Barbados. And when the British Government approaches
Rothewell to ask the family’s help in exposing a dangerous arms dealer,
Xanthia must enter society after all, only to find her loyalties torn.
Someone in London is fueling the conflict on the Balkan Peninsula by
smuggling illicit weapons into the Aegean—and there is only one likely
suspect. The Marquis of Nash has the resources, the contacts and, quite
possibly, the deeply divided loyalties. But can Xanthia’s subterfuge
prove him a traitor to the Crown before her heart is broken? |
