Secrets Of A Wallflower

Secrets Of A Wallflower
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A secret shared…But can she trust him?In this Debutantes in Paris story, Diana Martin is thrilled be a writer covering the Parisian Exposition. Her new role must be kept quiet—her parents would never allow it! When enigmatic Sir William Blakely discovers her ruse, he knows it could lead her into danger. With the sparks igniting between them, William realises the only way to protect Diana is by staying as close to her as possible!

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A secret shared...

But can she trust him?

In this Debutantes in Paris story, Diana Martin is thrilled to be a writer covering the Parisian Exposition. But her new role must be kept quiet—her parents would never allow it! When enigmatic Sir William Blakely discovers her ruse, he knows it could lead her into danger. With the sparks igniting between them, William realizes the only way to protect Diana is by staying as close to her as possible!

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Book 1—Secrets of a Wallflower

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“McCabe sets the perfect tone, complete with all the elegant trimmings and sparkling warmth such genre fantasy can capture.”

—RT Book Reviews on The Wallflower’s Mistletoe Wedding

AMANDA MCCABE wrote her first romance at the age of sixteen—a vast epic, starring all her friends as the characters, written secretly during algebra class. She’s never since used algebra, but her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA®, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Booksellers’ Best, the National Readers’ Choice Award and the Holt Medallion. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, one dog and one cat.

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Running from Scandal Running into Temptation The Wallflower’s Mistletoe Wedding

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Secrets of a Wallflower

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Secrets of a Wallflower

Amanda McCabe


www.millsandboon.co.uk

ISBN: 978-1-474-07377-6

SECRETS OF A WALLFLOWER

© 2018 Ammanda McCabe

Published in Great Britain 2018

by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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To my mom, because we’ll always have Paris!

Prologue

Spring 1888—Miss Grantley’s School for Young Ladies

‘By this time next year I will be a famous authoress,’ announced Miss Diana Martin as she lay in the grass with her two best friends and stared up at the clouds sliding across the pale blue April sky. They were only a few days from leaving their schooling for ever, presumably as polished young ladies of eighteen, ready to grace society, and had thus been allowed a rare afternoon picnic unchaperoned in the school’s lush park.

‘How can you do that, Di?’ murmured Lady Alexandra, a duke’s daughter, the sweetest, shyest and most beautiful girl in all of Miss Grantley’s. ‘There are no great lady authors. It must be so hard. Everyone knowing who you are, staring at you wherever you go. If anyone would buy the book at all. I would be so terrified.’

‘Oh, Alex,’ laughed Emily Fortescue, the most sensible of the trio that everyone in the dormitory corridors like to call The Three Musketeers. ‘You would be terrified if a mouse even looked at you, though you must get used to it. You are a duke’s daughter



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