His Secret Duchess

Gayle Wilson

Table of Contents

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Dear Reader (#ucfc77962-b79a-5d77-b638-6f9bac81ecb7)

Title Page (#u1d41a815-c9cb-569c-ac56-22958a1836fd)

About the Author (#u0a434f4e-c948-5542-9708-e0ad607ffe82)

Dedication (#u78b798f7-a8be-5464-be53-4a4be2b58da6)

Prologue (#ueb1e743e-ea41-5ecd-9e85-75d91687b024)

Chapter One (#ua5495c22-8a3f-5831-bf92-1c8f810ec1da)

Chapter Two (#u65b7fed9-a6b5-5cfe-9301-af016e13614c)

Chapter Three (#u952f5c3b-1246-53a1-b07c-40ae7180ed00)

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All their vows, physical and verbal, had been made.

Nothing important remained that needed to be given voice.

Mary put her hand over Nick’s sleeve, the tips of her fingers still shaded with berry juice. The crested ring he wore was briefly touched with moonlight. Seeing the glint, he slipped it off his finger and onto her thumb.

“Take it to my father if…” The sentence trailed off, unfinished.

She nodded.

“I love you, Mary Winters,” he whispered. “I will always love you. Dearer to me than my own soul.”

Again she nodded.

He felt the small tightening of her fingers over his forearm as she leaned to place her lips against the roughness of his unshaven cheek.

“God keep you safe,” she whispered, a prayer, and stepped away, releasing him, freeing him to fulfill other vows, as compelling to his honor, she knew, as these they had made here together….

Dear Reader,

His Secret Duchess is a heart-wrenching new Regency title from Gayle Wilson, a RITA Award finalist who is also making a name for herself with her spine-tingling mysteries for Harlequin’s Intrigue line. In this month’s title, a nobleman presumed dead returns home after seven years of war to discover his “secret wife” on trial for murder, and a son whom he must rescue from a vengeful merchant. Don’t miss this dark and extraordinary tale of love and redemption.

Linda Castle’s new book, Temple’s Prize, features a hotshot young paleontologist who discovers that his challenge to his former professor will be taken up by his daughter instead. And popular author Suzanne Barclay returns to her bestselling series, THE SOMMERVILLE BROTHERS, with her newest medieval novel Knight’s Rebellion, the stirring tale of the leader of a band of outlaws who finds himself unable to resist the mysterious woman whom he has rescued.

And when a homeless schoolteacher is taken in by the wealthy uncle of one of her students, falling in love is the last thing on their minds in Pat Tracy’s new Western, Cade’s Justice, the first book in her terrific series set in Denver, Colorado, called THE GUARDSMEN. Another great read from an author who always delivers a fast-paced and sexy story.

Whatever your tastes in reading, we hope you enjoy all four books.

Sincerely,

Tracy Farrell

Senior Editor

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His Secret Duchess

Gayle Wilson

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(#uf9c40935-c86f-563c-ac51-a8e7573722e6)GAYLE WILSON

is the award-winning author of ten novels written for Harlequin. Gayle has lived in Alabama her entire life, except for the years she followed her army aviator husband to a variety of military posts. She holds a master’s degree and an additional certification in the education of the gifted from the University of Alabama. Before beginning her writing career she taught at a number of schools around the Birmingham, Alabama, area.

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