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IF HE'S NOBLE
Wherlockes #7
Hannah Howell
Releasing July 28th, 2015
Kensington: Zebra
New York Times bestselling
author Hannah Howell delivers adventure and instant attraction in this all-new
Wherlocke Family novel...
For
Lady Primrose Wootten nothing has been ordinary since her father the Baron died
and his wayward family filled the estate with greed and treachery. Primrose
knows if she can just track down her brother, he can send the odious relations
on their way. But instead she finds this enormous, powerful stranger, and
forgets entirely what she was doing in the first place...
Sir
Bened Vaughn isn't much afraid of a pistol. But he is a bit afraid of the woman
holding it, who stirs up something so primal he's not sure he can shake it off.
Vaughn is an honorable man, and he knows he has no right to desire Primrose.
Yet he does have an obligation to help her, and as they learn more about her
brother's disappearance, he realizes that means staying by her side...wanting
her all the while... and wondering how much longer they can resist
temptation...
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Keeping a close eye out for Sir
Bened, she walked toward the inn where they were staying. She worked hard to
convince herself that everything was all right but there was an unease
beginning to knot her stomach. It was strange for Sir Bened to wander off with
no word to her. He was very set in his determination to save her, protect her.
The man would never simply walk away without letting her know where he was
headed, she was certain of that. So where was he?
Perhaps
some woman had lured him away, she thought, recalling the looks the women had
given him from time to time, and then stumbled slightly at the pain that
thought caused her. Yet she had no claim on him. He had stuck by her side
because he was convinced she needed protection as well as help in finding
Simeon. The stab to the heart she had suffered when thinking he had left with a
woman told her that some part of her did indeed think of him as hers, that she
had some claim on him. Telling herself not to be a fool, that she had only
known the man for a day, helped not at all.
Pausing
at the front of a pub, she wondered how big a mistake it might be to go inside
to look for Bened. Then a noise from within the shadowed alley between the pub
and the cooper’s shop caught her full attention. She had seen enough arguments
between the men working at Willow Hill to recognize the sounds of fists hitting
flesh.
Stepping
just inside the alley, Primrose pressed herself up against the stone wall of
the pub. Three men were confronting Bened. She winced each time one landed a
blow on him although he was holding his own against such poor odds. When one
pulled a sword she nearly called out but then Bened drew his own sword. A
movement caught her eyes and she watched as one of the men was very slowly
inching his way around to get behind Bened. The moment he was past Bened she
pulled her pistol and aimed it at him.
The
man held a knife in his hand and Primrose braced herself to shoot him before he
could use it on Bened. Then he saw her and the smile he gave her was so cold
she shivered. He was far enough away from her that she could not see him all
that clearly, although his grin was easy enough to spot. A faint light shone
through the window of the building behind him making a precise silhouette of
his form, and she used that to keep her gaze, and her pistol, fixed on him.
“You
mean to shoot me, lass?” He tossed his knife from one hand to the other and
back again, displaying his prowess with it. “One chance before I reach you.
Head or heart?”
She
saw how the light revealed that his legs were braced apart, in a fighting
stance, that faint light shining between them. “I do not think I like those
choices.”
“Only
ones you got, lass.”
She
aimed at his head and then drew that aim downward until it rested just above
the light shining between his legs. “Not the only one. Might not kill you
though you will probably wish it had. You could also bleed to death as you wail
about your lost pride.”
Hannah D. Howell is a highly regarded
and prolific romance writer. Since Amber Flame, her first historical romance,
was released in February 1988, she has published 25 novels and short stories,
with more on the way. Her writing has been repeatedly recognized for its
excellence and has "made Waldenbooks Romance Bestseller list a time or
two" as well as was nominated twice by Romantic Times for Best Medieval
Romance (Promised Passion and Elfking's Lady). She has also won Romantic Times'
Best British Isles Historical Romance for Beauty and the Beast; and, in 1991-92
she received Romantic Times' Career Achievement Award for Historical
Storyteller of the Year.
Hannah was born and raised in Massachusetts
(the maternal side of her family has been there since the 1630's). She has been
married to her husband Stephen for 28 years, who she met in England while
visiting relatives, and decided to import him. They have two sons Samuel, 27,
and Keir, 24. She is addicted to crocheting, reads and plays piano, attempts to
garden, and collects things like dolls, faerie and cat figurines, and music
boxes. She also seems to collect cats, as she now has four of them, Clousseau,
Banshee, Spooky, and Oliver Cromwell.
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