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“Vile seducer of women!”

Of all the accusations Gregory, Duke of Halstead, has ever had leveled at him, this is perhaps the most offensive and the least accurate But as he has just woken naked in bed with no er, perhaps it’s time to reevaluate!

Innocent Prudence is just as shocked when she awakens! But as these strangers begin to unravel the plot behind the scandalous circu herself in bed witha duke!

“I a out of the bed

A crowd of interested bystanders were peering into his room with a mixture of shock and disapproval

With a low snarl, he stalked stark naked across the room and slammed the door shut on the whole crowd of them

Then shot the bolt hoood measure

He turned, sloondering just exactly what sort of female he had found in such a raood look at the girl as sitting up in the bed, with the covers clutched up to her chin

Contrary to what he’d half expected, she was a pretty little thing, with a cloud of chestnut curls and a pair of huge brown eyes

Which was an immense relief He ood taste

Chapter One

‘Vile seducer of women!’

Gregory winced and pulled the quilt up over his ears What kind of inn was this? Surely even travellers to such a Godforsaken backwater shouldn’t have to put up with deranged fe at them before breakfast?

‘Oh! What wickedness!’

Pulling the quilt up round his ears clearly wasn’t a strong enough hint that deranged females weren’t welco louder Co closer

‘What is the world co to?’

Just what he’d like to know, he thought resentfully, dragging his eyelids open and seeing the owner of the strident voice standing right over hier at his face

‘How could you?’ the bony-fingered, screeching woht into his face