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A Christmas Bride
Mary Balogh
The Wrong Lady
At six-and-thirty, the very wealthy Edgar Downes had
finally decided to take a bride. Although not to the
manner born, Edgar had promised his aging father that
he would wed a titled lady by Christmas. Edgar came to
London to review a parade of eligible misses, all of them
pretty, proper, and young enough to bear him a son. But
it was the widow Lady Helena Stapleton, in a shocking
red dress, who captured his undivided attention. He
simply could not take his eyes from her. And as for
Helena, she too felt a most disturbing frisson when she
saw this seductive stranger.
An irresistible passion was soon sweeping them into a
scandalous liaison. Marriage, of course, would never do.
Helena was too old and altogether the wrong lady to
marry; Helena thought Edgar simply not in her class. But
in a season of unexpected miracles, something
wondrous was about to happen. ..something that would
change their minds and transform their hearts forever. ...
Signet (Regency), November 1997
224 pages ISBN: 0451191447 Paperback $4.99
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