Introducing Louise Allenâs most scandalous trilogy yet!
DANGER & DESIRE
Leaving the sultry shores of India behind them, the passengers of the Bengal Queen face a new life ahead in Englandâuntil a shipwreck throws their plans into disarray â¦
Can Alistair and Perditaâs illicit onboard flirtation survive the glittering social whirl of London?
Washed up on an island populated by ruffians, virginal Averil must rely on rebel captain Luc for protection â¦
And honourable Callum finds himself falling for his brotherâs fiancée!
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RAVISHED BY THE RAKE
SEDUCED BY THE SCOUNDREL MARRIED TO A STRANGER from Mills & Boon>® Historical
LOUISE ALLEN has been immersing herself in history, real and fictional, for as long as she can remember, and finds landscapes and places evoke powerful images of the past. Louise lives in Bedfordshire, and works as a property manager, but spends as much time as possible with her husband at the cottage they are renovating on the north Norfolk coast, or travelling abroad. Venice, Burgundy and the Greek islands are favourite atmospheric destinations. Please visit Louiseâs websiteâwww.louiseallenregency.co.ukâfor the latest news!
Previous novels by the same author:
THE DANGEROUS MR RYDER*
THE OUTRAGEOUS LADY FELSHAM*
THE SHOCKING LORD STANDON*
THE DISGRACEFUL MR RAVENHURST*
THE NOTORIOUS MR HURST*
THE PIRATICAL MISS RAVENHURST*
PRACTICAL WIDOW TO PASSIONATE MISTRESS**
VICARâS DAUGHTER TO VISCOUNTâS LADY**
INNOCENT COURTESAN TO ADVENTURERâS BRIDE**
RAVISHED BY THE RAKEâ
*Those Scandalous Ravenhursts
**The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters
â Danger & Desire
and in theSilk & Scandalmini-series
THE LORD AND THE WAYWARD LADY
THE OFFICER AND THE PROPER LADY
and in Mills & Boon>® HistoricalUndone!eBooks:
DISROBED AND DISHONOURED
AUCTIONED VIRGIN TO SEDUCED BRIDE
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I loved writing about the immediacy and the drama of the wreck of the Bengal Queen in the first two books in my Danger & Desire trilogy, but I found it equally challenging to explore the effect of that several months later on two more people whose lives are changed for ever after the ship hits the rocks. Sophia Langley is miles away, safe in a Hertfordshire village, but after years of believing she knows her destiny now she is forced to come to terms with her very uncertain future. Duty and desire both seem to pull her in the same directionâis it the right one to take? Meanwhile Callum Chatterton has to make a decision that satisfies his sense of duty but which threatens to completely overset his careful plans and equally carefully guarded heart.
One of the joys of writing a series is that I can continue to follow characters from earlier books, and it was fun to encounter Dita and Alistair from RAVISHED BY THE RAKE and Averil and Luc from SEDUCED BY THE SCOUNDREL again, and to glimpse their new married lives. They were as eager for a happy ending for Callum and Sophia as I wasâI hope you enjoy reading about their journey to find love as much as I enjoyed writing it.
To all my friends in the Cambridge Chapter of the Romantic Novelistsâ Associationâ thanks for the support and the fun.
Hertfordshireâ1799
âI love Daniel and I will wait for him and marry him!â Sophia Langley glared at Cal. Her small bosomâWhere had that come from all of a sudden? he wonderedârose and fell within the bodice of her unfashionable gown; her nose, as usual, was smudged with charcoal.
âIt is ridiculous. You are far too young, both of you.â He resisted the urge to pick her up like the small, underfed kitten she resembled and give her a good shake to try and get some sense into her. Why on earth his twin would fix on the daughter of one of their gentry neighbours to fall for defeated him. The chit wasnât even out yet.
âYou do not understand me, you have taken virtually no notice of me when we visit, and now you know what is best for me? I am seventeen and Daniel is the same age as you.â Indignant blue eyes, her best feature, narrowed at him.
The retort that she was only seventeen and three days old and that he was ten minutes older than his twin was childish; he bit it back unsaid. At just eighteen he was a man and he did not bicker with girls. âWhat do you mean, I take no notice of you? We played together as children, didnât we?â
She snorted. He supposed she was refraining from observing that she had trailed around after them and had been tolerated as a fielder at cricket and as a suitable maiden to rescue while they were defeating dragons or Saracens or half the French army, but that hardly made them soul mates.
âWe are both going to be away for a long time. You will meet someone else, fall in love properly when you grow up.â
It was, he realised as soon as he had said it, tactless in the extreme. Sophia drew her skinny frame up to its full height somewhere near his chin.