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Miss Billings Treads the Boards
Carla Kelly
Playing a Perilous Part
Miss Katherine Billings was cast in
a most unlikely role for a vicar's daughter:
But beautiful Kate was an impoverished
orphan-and her only escape from a lecherous
employer's embraces was to go upon the stage.
It was dangerous enough that a charming
French playwright wanted her as his leading
lady, and an ambitious impresario demanded
she bare her charms to an eager audience. But
when a magnificent marquess, Lord Henry
Grayson, proposed that she join him in a
masquerade of mating in a mock marriage,
Kate found that putting on an act in public
could be even more perilous in private....if
the act was an act of love....
Signet (Regency), December 1993
ISBN #0451178564 224 pages Paperback $3.99
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