Nightingale
By:
Cathy Maxwell
Releasing
August 26th, 2014
Avon:
Impulse
Blurb
Fate
has brought them together -again.
At one
time, Jemma had meant the world to Dane Pendleton, but then she
betrayed their young love by marrying another for his title and
fortune.
Now
Time has turned the tables. Dane is wealthy, respected, knighted and
the widowed Jemma has nothing but her pride.
His
honor for hers . . .
Dane’s
name is on the lips of every beauty in London. They whisper he
learned “tricks” while he was in the Orient. But has he forgotten
Jemma, now Lady Mosby, and what they had once meant to each other?
And will he accept her devil’s bargain?
In
every woman’s life, there is that one love who slipped away. The
man who makes her wonder “what if?”
But is
this a momentary madness or a chance to rekindle a love that could
last a lifetime?
Originally
appeared in the print anthology THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Excerpt
Only
an idiot picked a duel with a man of Dane’s reputation. But then
Whiting had felt himself the injured party and he’d been
dangerously drunk. Dane had attempted to walk away, to disengage
Whiting when he’d started reviling him right there in the middle of
White’s, but the young lord would not let him leave.
Whiting’s
host, Simmons, had made apologies for his guest, but Whiting had even
drowned him out, refusing to listen to all reason. No, the foolish
lad had thought he had a reputation to protect, and now it was swords
at dawn.
Dane
took a deep sip of the whiskey, the bite of the liquor as sharp as
his memories—Whiting and his family had never been the injured
party. If anything, Dane should have been the one to attack him.
How
strange that after all this time, after his many, many successes,
including being knighted, there was still that deep emptiness inside
him?
And
who would have thought a woman could have so much power?
Frowning,
he set the heavy crystal glass down and pushed it away.
He’d
thought he’d successfully exorcized Jemma Carson from every fiber
of his being. He’d thought he’d rid himself of the bitterness—and
yet here it was, returned fourfold by her brother’s drunken verbal
attack.
But
then, didn’t poets warn that Love wielded a sword sharper than any
known to man?
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CATHY
MAXWELL spends hours in front of her computer pondering the question,
“Why do people fall in love?” It remains for her the great
mystery of life and the secret to happiness. She lives in beautiful
Virginia with children, horses, dogs, and cats.
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Website:
http://www.cathymaxwell.com/
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https://twitter.com/maxwellcathy
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