Jack Compton's Luck

Jack Compton's Luck
Paula Marshall

Four years of war and even more years of trying to save the family estate have knocked the daredevil out of Jack Compton.He's hanging on to his place in society by the skin of his teeth. Seeing Lacey Chancellor joyously dancing the Charleston brings his passion for life back full force! As luck would have it, this wealthy heiress is drawn to him. But pride is a powerful thing. Unwilling to be branded a fortune hunter, will Jack choose honor over love?

“Admiring the Chancellor heiress, are we?”

“Chancellor heiress?” Jack turned to look at his companion just as the dance ended and the young woman moved off the floor.

“She’s a half sister of the present Chancellor head of the family, who is a financial wizard in the city. The heiress was sent to the States shortly after the war started, when she was quite a young girl. Came back earlier this year. Everyone and his brother’s after her.”

He looked sideways at Jack. “How about it? Why not have a go yourself? God knows you could do with the money, no longer land-rich, and dirt-poor into the bargain. But however carefree she looks on the dance floor, she’s as hard as nails when it comes to suitors.”

“And as hard as nails on the dance floor, too, if the performance I’ve just witnessed is any guide,” said Jack, determined not to reveal how much the mere sight of the Chancellor heiress had roused him.

Jack Compton’s Luck

Harlequin

Historical

Author Note

After I had written two novels telling of the Chancellor twins Ritchie and Russell, and the part played in the first, Major Chancellor’s Mission, by the charmed object called the Luck of the Comptons, it occurred to me that here was another interesting story waiting to be written.

The Luck had passed out of the hands of the Comptons and into those of the Chancellors, with the promise that if ever the Comptons were to be in serious trouble again the Luck would find a way to return to them, and so offer them salvation.

Just over a hundred years later, in the 1920s, the Comptons find themselves once more in financial difficulties. Jack Compton, trying to save his family home from ruin, meets Miss Lacey Chancellor, a descendant of Ritchie, and their love story takes place in events that echo those of her ancestor.

I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I enjoyed creating their adventures.

Paula Marshall

JACK COMPTON’S LUCK

TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON

AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG

STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID

PRAGUE • WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND

PAULA MARSHALL,

married with three children, has had a varied life. She began her career in a large library and ended it as a senior academic in charge of history in a polytechnic. She has traveled widely, has been a swimming coach and has appeared on television in University Challenge and Mastermind. She has always wanted to write, and likes her novels to be full of adventure and humor.

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