Reluctantly Rolfe agrees to her plan as he really has no other option.Īnd he also persuades Zarina to travel with him on a voyage to India – and she accepts his offer to escape a loveless marriage and perhaps to find a true love of her own at the end of the long voyage. She makes an offer to use her inheritance to pay all The Priory’s debts and avoid the auction if only Rolfe will make her his fiancée, thereby making marriage to the Duke impossible. He is just about to start an auction for everything he owns when Zarina arrives to dramatically save the day with her huge fortune and she comes up with a cunning plan. She then hears the sad news that her childhood friend, Rolfe, now the Earl of Linwood, is being forced to sell the neighbouring Priory with all its contents and its huge estate to pay off the accumulated debts of his now dead elder brother, So when her uncle and Guardian insists that she should marry the middle-aged Duke of Malnesbury, she is appalled at the idea and refuses point blank.
Having inherited a considerable fortune from her American Godmother, the beautiful young debutante,Zarina Bryden, really is the belle of the ball throughout London Society, wooed by an endless parade of insincere suitors in love with her money and not with her.īoth her mother and father have died and so she is an orphan, but a very rich one indeed.
But with the legacy of Martha's scars weighing heavy on her mind, and Fraser's duty calling him to battle at Culloden, it may be too late to explore whether theirs is a desire born of hate.or love. That kiss unleashes a storm of passion that rages quickly out of control. And she can't resist cursing her enemy with the "kiss of hate". Now she has not only one unconscious Jacobite rebel at her mercy, but two. Martha Wantage wears every reason she hates the Scots on her body-in the scars from a violent, fiery attack that killed her family. It's just a matter of time before Jack is turned over to the Crown as a traitor, but Fraser's attempt to rescue his friend is met with the blunt end of a candlestick. But when a kindly English family takes Jack in to be cared for by the governess and healer at their Derbyshire estate, Fraser can only watch helplessly. The Georgian Rebel Series, Book 1 Stranded in the heart of England after Bonnie Prince Charlie's hasty retreat, highlander Fraser Lachlan has sworn to stay by his injured friend's side.
Summary A passion that burns away centuries of hate. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! A Kiss for a Highlander - The Georgian Rebel Series #1 Jane Godman We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.
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