The Desperate Love of a Lord: A Free Novella

The Desperate Love of a Lord: A Free Novella
Jane Lark

Литагент HarperCollins

The Desperate Love of a Lord

A Free Historical Romance Novella

JANE LARK

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First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2014

Copyright © Jane Lark 2014

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © October 2014 ISBN: 9780008115876

Version 2016-02-17

Digital eFirst: Automatically produced by Atomik ePublisher from Easypress.

Contents

Cover (#u39f0913a-8a6d-5d7a-8eb9-e1cfddb253a4)

Title Page (#u4a1b8b46-1423-54c0-9fc2-384d11204b8d)

Copyright (#u3dfe3eef-03bd-5bdc-b03f-e39092d04fff)

Praise for Jane Lark (#u355029c4-8a3b-5d71-958d-bcf684a0b05c)

Part One (#u9c3fc2a8-80c4-5306-b0c3-4fe1f93e8653)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Jane Lark … (#litres_trial_promo)

About HarperImpulse (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise for Jane Lark (#uf9712dc0-ae66-5874-9424-d5a8c8b4161d)

“Jane Lark has an incredible talent to draw the reader in from the first page onwards.”

Cosmochicklitan Book Reviews

“Any description that I give you would not only spoil the story but could not give this book a tenth of the justice that it deserves. Wonderful!”

Candy Coated Book Blog

“This book held me captive after the first 2 pages. If I could crawl inside and live in there with the characters I would.”

A Reading Nurse Blogspot

“The book swings from truly swoon-worthy, tense and heart wrenching, highly erotic and everything else in between.”

BestChickLit.com (http://BestChickLit.com)

“I love Ms. Lark’s style—beautifully descriptive, emotional and can I say, just plain delicious reading? This is the kind of mixer upper I’ve been looking for in romance lately.”

Devastating Reads BlogSpot

Part One (#uf9712dc0-ae66-5874-9424-d5a8c8b4161d)

Looking from the window of the dingy hotel room, Lady Violet Rimes gathered her courage. She knew what the physician was about to say. She could not quite believe she had trapped herself in this dreadful muddle. She was a grown woman, a widow who knew the way of the world and she had always been cautious before, but this time …

“I presume, Ma’am, you know you are with child?”

“How far gone? When is it due?” Her bleeding had stopped weeks ago, though she’d pretended it was not happening. She had spent the last weeks half hoping it was true and half wishing it were not.