Elinor Aspinall is left languishing in London when her intended bridegroom, Lord Foxhall, deserts her for diplomatic duties in Vienna.
Elinor knows all too well that her bitter rival, Penelope Freeland, is conveniently in that romantic city and all too eager to keep Foxhall company when his working days turn into glittering soirees.
So when she is offered the task of carrying a highly confidential document from England to Austria, she leaps at the chance to reclaim her beloved.
Little does she realise what she is about to embark on.
A harrowing journey, shadowed by a frightful enemy she cannot see - and protected only by an outrageously attractive man of mystery named Reeves.
It is indeed, very peculiar when Reeves, who refers to himself as her humble servant, acts more and more like her arrogant master ...
Questions needed answers and Elinor has none...
What was in the document that Elinor carried and that she had vowed to guard at all costs - and which someone wanted badly enough to kill for?
What was wrong with the heart that Elinor had rapturously given to the maddeningly handsome Lord Foxhall - but that now quickened so disturbingly when the gruffly attractive, not-to-be-trusted Reeves came too close for comfort?
What awaited Elinor in Vienna, where she is faced in a duel of wit and wile with a beautiful society vixen - and yet another kind of struggle within herself?
'The Duke's Messenger' is a thrilling Regency romance.
Vanessa Gray (along with Jocelyn Carew) is a pen-name used by Jacquelyn Aeby, who was born in Indiana and graduated from the University of Chicago. Under these three names she has written over thirty historical romance novels with a particular focus on the Georgian and Regency periods. Other best-selling Vanessa Gray titles include 'The Masked Heiress', 'The Lonely Earl', 'The Dutiful Daughter' and 'The Wayward Governess'.
Genre: Historical Romance
Elinor knows all too well that her bitter rival, Penelope Freeland, is conveniently in that romantic city and all too eager to keep Foxhall company when his working days turn into glittering soirees.
So when she is offered the task of carrying a highly confidential document from England to Austria, she leaps at the chance to reclaim her beloved.
Little does she realise what she is about to embark on.
A harrowing journey, shadowed by a frightful enemy she cannot see - and protected only by an outrageously attractive man of mystery named Reeves.
It is indeed, very peculiar when Reeves, who refers to himself as her humble servant, acts more and more like her arrogant master ...
Questions needed answers and Elinor has none...
What was in the document that Elinor carried and that she had vowed to guard at all costs - and which someone wanted badly enough to kill for?
What was wrong with the heart that Elinor had rapturously given to the maddeningly handsome Lord Foxhall - but that now quickened so disturbingly when the gruffly attractive, not-to-be-trusted Reeves came too close for comfort?
What awaited Elinor in Vienna, where she is faced in a duel of wit and wile with a beautiful society vixen - and yet another kind of struggle within herself?
'The Duke's Messenger' is a thrilling Regency romance.
Vanessa Gray (along with Jocelyn Carew) is a pen-name used by Jacquelyn Aeby, who was born in Indiana and graduated from the University of Chicago. Under these three names she has written over thirty historical romance novels with a particular focus on the Georgian and Regency periods. Other best-selling Vanessa Gray titles include 'The Masked Heiress', 'The Lonely Earl', 'The Dutiful Daughter' and 'The Wayward Governess'.
Genre: Historical Romance
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