My Lord Highwayman Page 26

  She crossed her bedchamber and pushed back the somewhat threadbare draperies of a faded chintz that had hung in symmetrical diligence over her windows throughout her nine and twenty years. Drawing back the shutters, she saw at once that her darkest suspicions were correct. She shook her head in dismay but not surprise at the sight of the cut and limping horses struggling in harness, the low wooden fence torn from its nailed posts, and the still form of a man lying face down at the exact point where her beautiful purple petunias met a neatly scythed lawn.

  She shook her head. “Not again,” she murmured…

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  About the Author

  As of August 15, 2013, and with the publication of MY LORD HIGHWAYMAN, Valerie King has published fifty Regency works. In 2005, Romantic Times gave her a Career Achievement award in Regency Romance. Currently, she’s bringing her extensive sweet Regency backlist to the public as well as working on Regency Historicals and Sweet Regency Novellas for future publication. As Caris Roane, she writes paranormal romance for St. Martin’s Press, though of a considerably more adult nature than her Regency romance work, and is also self-publishing the continuing stories of her Guardians of Ascension series.

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