Rendezvous - German Edition Author:Amanda Quick, Uschi Gnade (Translator) Zuerst glaubt die temperamentvolle Augusta Ballinger an einen furchtbaren Irrtum: Der unterkühlt aristokratische und zugleich so verwirrend charmante Earl of Graystone kann unmöglich ernsthaft erwägen, sie zu heiraten! Schließlich weiß alle Welt, dass seine Auserwählte eine wesentliche Bedingung erfüllen muss... more »:
Sie muss ein Vorbild an Tugend und Moral sein. Und das kann man von Augusta, weiß Gott, kaum behaupten. Sie stammt nämlich aus einer alten Rebellenfamilie und ist zu allem bereit — nur nicht dazu, sich an gesellschaftliche Spielregeln zu halten. Um ihren zukünftigen Ehemann von seinem Irrtum zu überzeugen, schleicht sie sich mit eindeutigen Absichten zu nächtlicher Stunde in sein Schlafzimmer. Eine willkommene Gelegenheit für den Earl, seiner widerspenstigen Braut eine leidenschaftliche Lektion zu erteilen ...« less
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Augusta Ballinger was quite sure that it was all a dreadful mistake. The chillingly pompous and dangerously distrurbing Earl of Graystone could not possibly wish to marry her. Why, it was rumored that his chosen bride must be a veritable model of virture. And everyone knew that Augusta, as the last of the wild, reckless Northumberland Ballingers, was a woman who could not be bothered by society's rules.
That was why the spirited beauty had planned a midnight encounter to warn the earl off, to convince him that she would make him a very poor wife indeed. But when she crawled in through his darkened study window, Augusta only succeeded in strengthening Harry's resolve: to kiss the laughter from those honeyed lips and teach this maddening miss to behave! How could he possibly know that is was he who was in for a lesson...as his brazen fiancee set out to win his heart - and an old and clever enemy stepped in to threaten their love, their honor, and their very lives?
The scholarly Harry Fleming, earl of Graystone, prizes loyalty above all else. A former spy, he is haunted by his failure to nab a traitor known as the Spider. Furthermore, his wife was "a lying, deceitful, falsehearted bitch." Now a widower, Harry's in the market for a second wife. He has selected as his bride Augusta Ballinger, a reckless but steadfastly loyal woman, and knowing she will balk, he persuades her guardian to present the engagement to her as a fait accompli. Despite her attraction to Henry, Augusta is indeed convinced that a free spirit doesn't belong with a stick-in-the-mud scholar. But the marriage proceeds, and as Harry tries to fashion a proper wife out of Augusta, he begins to believe that a document linked to the suspicious death of her brother two years earlier may offer a clue to the identity of the elusive Spider.