Caught

Caught
Kristin Hardy

His fling with Julia was supposed to be over, but gorgeous bachelor Alex is determined to win her back.When the pair end up trapped in a museum together he has forty-eight hours – and some seriously saucy tactics – to reclaim his lover.

Caught

Kristin Hardy

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To Kathryn, for efforts above and beyond

the call of duty

and to Stephen

for being pure of heart

Table of Contents

Cover (#ud654ce76-027c-50a9-bb73-2811a49b0324)

Title Page (#u3d670e74-a5c8-5b1f-8111-c7fc241463b0)

Dedication (#u77a97738-96f2-5719-aded-dfb4eb6d47c9)

Acknowledgements (#u78c88f9a-954c-54b6-b448-58b801bc4df6)

Prologue (#uc5a5a284-b0dd-522f-9393-c750c1fbaac8)

Chapter One (#u24372355-1bb7-5c9f-9f86-dd60c621ce73)

Chapter Two (#u4bd671c9-0bd1-5fa0-bc5b-8d0d310846fb)

Chapter Three (#u46745f5c-9e19-57bf-8919-b4383b8788bd)

Chapter Four (#ua1bf8c04-e7ed-5a8a-b448-b40a07c5ad8d)

Chapter Five (#u6781101d-478d-5cb4-8c0d-799e324ebc2d)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Pamela Hatchfield, conservator, and

Rita Freed, curator of Egyptian art,

Boston Museum of Fine Arts;

and to Robert Burnham,

editor of the Napoleon Series.

The Legend Continues

The drums and cymbals sounded. The heavy, muskyscent of incense filled the air. Despite the heat outside,the Hall of A Thousand Pillars remained cool withits heavy stone roof and carved columns. It was theNaming Day.

Batu walked along behind her older sister Anan,slowly, matching the pace of her footsteps to the beatof the drums. The cloth of Anan’s garments shonewhite in the flickering torchlight; the gold-and-colored-stonebracelets on her arms gleamed.

Anan had to be exhausted, Batu knew, thinkingof the week of ceremonial cleansing, the fasting, theprayers. That morning they’d risen before dawn to gothrough the rituals, the bathing, the adornments, thedressing of Anan’s hair with precious pearls, broughtfrom afar.

It was not every day the ruler of the kingdom waspromised her consort.