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and cherished for as long as the two of them lived…
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Author’s Note
    Welcome to the sensual and exciting world of The Notorious St. Claires!
    Angelina and Alexander’s love story, as the matriarch and patriarch of the St. Claire family, is where the story all began and it was great fun matching wits between these two strong-willed lovers.
    THE DUKE’S CINDERELLA BRIDE is the first full-length story, featuring Angelina and Alexander’s aristocratically haughty eldest son Hawk who more than meets his match in the beautiful and unconventional Jane Smith.
    Hawk’s three rebellious siblings appear in the following novels from Mills & Boon Historical. Look out for them wherever books and eBooks are sold.
    THE RAKE’S WICKED PROPOSAL — August 09
THE ROGUE’S DISGRACED LADY — February 2010
LADY ARABELLA’S SCANDALOUS MARRIAGE — coming 2010
    I hope you enjoy The Notorious St. Claires quartet!
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Enjoy more passion through the ages with the sensual Mills & Boon UNDONE titles on sale now:
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DISROBED AND DISHOUNORED by Louise Allen
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A NIGHT OF WICKED DELIGHT by Joanne Rock
PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY by Bronwyn Scott
THE RAKE’S INTIMATE ENCOUNTER by Ann Lethbridge
NOTORIOUS LORD, COMPROMISED MISS by Annie Burrows
THE UNMASKING OF LADY LOVELESS by Nicola Cornick
LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS by Bronwyn Scott
THE VIKING’S FORBIDDEN LOVE-SLAVE by Michelle Willingham
SHIPWRECKED AND SEDUCED by Amanda McCabe
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Carole Mortimer was born in England, the youngest of three children. She began writing in 1978, and has now written over one hundred and fifty books for Harlequin Mills & Boon ® . Carole has six sons, Matthew, Joshua, Timothy, Michael, David and Peter. She says, “I’m happily married to Peter senior; we’re best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.”
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ISBN: 978-1-4089-1493-9
    At the Duke’s Service
    Copyright © 2009 by Carole Mortimer
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