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By Stephanie Laurens
Good-looking, filthy rich, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has every little thing a gentleman must take pleasure in London society to the fullest—and he has. he is performed playing cards until eventually sunrise, flirted with eligible younger girls, and made like to a few ineligible ones. yet now he is stressed and tired of the senseless frivolity and careless excitement, so it really is with a feeling of aid that he's taking up the reins of his family's property in rural Devon. His such a lot urgent desire is to rent a brand new supervisor for the inn—the heart of village lifestyles. this sort of small job, but he discovers few respectable candidates are keen to reside in a quiet kingdom backwater. Then genteel yet impoverished omit Emily Beauregard applies for the placement. Jonas's preliminary reaction is an emphatic "no!" girls, specifically one as beautiful as Emily, belong within the ballroom or the bed room, now not working an hotel. yet with out possible choices, he grudgingly permits Emily to attempt, and she or he speedily proves herself helpful, resurrecting the resort with tact and ability. yet Emily has a mystery. it isn't in basic terms the necessity to offer for herself and her orphaned siblings that has introduced her to Devon. She's surreptitiously trying to find a kin treasure hidden within the village, the single clues to its position a cryptic rhyme passed down in the course of the generations. Emily is set to resolve the puzzle, locate the treasure, and reinstate her kin to its rightful position in society. yet Em hasn't bargained on Jonas. His adventure is temptation, his attentions impossible to resist, and he is decided to assist her in her quest. He finally persuades her to belief him, and jointly they resolve the clues. yet another individual is looking at, ready, and as soon as the kin legacy is unearthed, the villain moves, threatening Em, her kin, and the affection she and Jonas have chanced on in each one other's fingers.
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His lips curved as he very correctly bowed. ” Head rising, she swept out of the rectory door. Filing followed, farewelling her and Henry on the porch. Returning inside, Filing shut the door, then joined Jonas before the window. In companionable silence, they watched Emily Beauregard and her brother descend the common. ” Jonas snorted. “An innkeeper whose father went to Pembroke, who’s set on ensuring her brother does the same. ” He nodded. “At least. ” Shaking his head, Filing turned from the window.
He glanced briefly at her; she was still holding forth about the inn at Wylands. Looking forward, he inwardly debated her age—twentyfour or five, at the most twenty-six, given her other sister was twentythree. It was her maturity that made her seem older, gained no doubt through having to look after her siblings from an early age. That and . . she’d definitely had experience of holding gentlemen at bay. Those barriers she’d erected against him were too practiced; she was too watchful, too aware of the possibilities at all times.
When would they get over him? He hadn’t tried to hold on to her hand for any longer than necessary. He was wearing leather gloves, and so was she. Yet still the sensation of his fingers holding hers lingered, stealing her breath, making her heart pound. Luckily, his horses, shifting restlessly, had claimed his attention. With just one last glance to make sure she was settled, he released the brake and loosened the reins. The chestnuts immediately surged, and they rattled out of the inn’s forecourt.