Excerpt & Giveaway: What a Lady Demands by Ashlyn Macnamara
What
a Lady Demands
The
Eton Boys Trilogy # 2
By:
Ashlyn Macnamara
Releasing
November 4th,
2014
Loveswept
Blurb
Readers
of Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Sabrina Jeffries will love Ashlyn
Macnamara’s novel about a smoldering new love that is threatened by
past betrayals.
Viscount
Lindenhurst cannot seem to find a governess who meets his impossible
standards—until Cecelia Sanford becomes the first woman to
interrupt the widower’s brooding in years. Lind had returned home
from the Napoleonic wars, broken in body and soul and longing for his
wife’s embrace, only to find her changed. Before they could
reconcile, an accident struck their son and claimed her life. Now
enter Cecelia, with her soft curves and sharp tongue—a tempting
distraction, it is true, but not a welcome one.
Past
the usual marrying age and haunted by a scandal of her own, Cecelia
soon finds herself caring for both the child and the man. The
viscount is brittle and even abrupt at times, yet she cannot deny the
attraction that stirs her body in his presence. Moved by the deep
sense of abandonment that tortures his soul, Cecelia aches to fully
awaken Lind’s heart from its rancorous slumber—if she can just
keep their pasts from destroying a second chance at love.
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Excerpt
Lind
watched Cecelia glide out the door with his housekeeper. The girl
didn’t so much walk as sway. Her hips swung from one side to the
other, and her skirt moved in time, brushing at the hints of
delectable curves beneath the faded muslin.
Cecelia
bloody Sanford, all deep, sparkling black eyes, dark brown curls, and
vivid smile. The last person he ever expected to land on his doorstep
and beg an interview as his governess. He shouldn’t accept her for
several reasons, the first and foremost among them, his supposed
friendship with her brother. That alone ought to drive him to send
her packing.
Lind,
however, could hardly say where he stood with her brother these days.
Not after everything that had happened. Not after the stilted
conversation in his carriage in that damnable village back in June,
the one where he nearly let on about his plans for Battencliffe. If
he was at all perceptive, Sanford would have surmised something had
gone patently wrong between his two old schoolmates. Perhaps he was
curious enough to send his sister to fill a position and find out
what she could.
Which
brought him back to Cecelia and the matter of her lying. Not that he
knew for certain she was, but she was definitely hiding something.
Perhaps it was simply her brother’s instigation behind her presence
in his home, but perhaps it was more than that.
He
leaned back in his chair and drummed his fingers on his desk. Since
his return from the war, circumstances had put him at distinct odds
with so-called polite society, enough that he ignored the doings of
the ton as much as possible.
But,
damn it all, a girl like Cecelia ought to have married long since.
She drew attention to herself with her throaty laugh and hands she
could never keep still. She draped herself in a certain air, one that
proclaimed she loved life for the pleasures it brought her, one that
attracted gentlemen’s attention. She’d certainly managed to reach
out and capture his notice the instant she waltzed into his study.
Author
Info
Ashlyn
Macnamara is the author of What a Lady Craves, A Most Devilish Rogue,
and A Most Scandalous Proposal. She lives in the wilds of suburbia
outside of Montreal with her husband and two teenage daughters. When
not writing, she looks for other excuses to neglect the housework,
among them knitting, reading, and wasting time on the Internet in the
guise of doing research.
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