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Twelfth Night

Pages
254
Published
1995
Language
English

Synopsis

A MERRY MISMATCH... — Anne Compton was in the most impossible, outrageous and mortifying position. That very morning, she had been abducted and spirited to Gretna Green by a scoundrel who'd actually attempted to wed her by force. But the resourceful heiress escaped and boarded the first mail coach back to England. Anne didn't anticipate a blizzard stranding her through the night...along with the all-too handsome Lord Stephen Etheridge. ...ENDS IN HOLY MATRIMONY With the dawn had come rescue -- and a rapidly spreading scandal. Now 'twas Anne's honor that was in need of saving, and Etheridge, self-confessed rake that he was, had just agreed to take her home for the holidays -- as his newly betrothed. A false engagement seemed the perfect subterfuge...until they ended up at the altar! Neither actually intended to wed. Or to bed. Only a Christmas miracle could turn a marriage begun in haste into a gift wrapped in the wondrous magic of love....

About the author

J
Joy Reed

Joy Reed was born in 1962 in Fort Scott, Kansas. Library work as a teenager introduced her to Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, which drew her toward Regency-set romance. She spent several years in the automotive industry, including at Ford Motor Co. and in dealership service management, before turning to writing after the birth of her daughter. From the mid-1990s into the early 2000s she published more than a dozen Regency romances with Kensington's Zebra imprint. She later began the Seraphina F...

Characters

Anne ComptonProtagonist
Lord Stephen EtheridgeProtagonist
All characters in Twelfth Night