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fellow can’t resist you. It’s only a matter of time,” Lady Arabella pronounced firmly. “But do promise me two things, Lucy. For heaven’s sake, don’t wear your knickerbockers to the Café Royale, will you? And do try to avoid wearing your spectacles in bed.”
    Lucy nodded, and laughed, and accepted general congratulation, and reassured her friends that she’d be wearing feminine dress tonight. This was true, as she’d purchased a chic new ensemble especially, taking particular care in her choice of French lingerie.
    Ah, but I shall wear my spectacles in bed, my dearest Ethan, she told her darling silently, already counting the minutes and seconds until they’d be together again.
    How else can I observe every last detail of your magnificent, manly body and your handsome face…or see the look of love in your blue eyes?
    Imagining that, her heart fluttered, and she smiled again.
     
    THE END
     
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    Society already believes she’s a scarlet woman. Why not become one?
    Posing nude to appease her now ex-fiancé perhaps wasn’t the most prudent idea Beatrice Weatherly has ever had. With the photographs scrutinized up and down the ton and her brother running them into debt, Beatrice's hopes of making a respectable marriage are dashed.
    After one glance at Beatrice’s infamous racy cabinet cards, wealthy, powerful Edward Ellsworth Richie is soon obsessed with Beatrice’s voluptuous figure. His indecent proposal—one month of hedonistic servitude in exchange for enough money to pay her brother’s debts—is one she can hardly refuse.
    Determined not to let the rogue best her, Beatrice sets out for the infamous House of Madame Chamfleur to learn how to appease Edward’s well-known appetite. Soon the couple is playing out exquisite fantasies…and feeling emotion that goes deeper than flesh. But Edward harbors a shocking secret, and Beatrice must decide if she’s prepared to give up everything for a man who can offer her nothing, but who means everything.

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ISBN: 978-1-4592-2140-6
    A Gentlewoman’s Pleasure
    Copyright © 2012 by Portia Da Costa
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