Neville Miranda Libri

The Marquis of Chase is not a reputable man.He is notorious for his wretched morals and is never received in respectable houses. The ladies of the ton would never allow him in their drawing rooms . . . though some of them have welcomed him into their bedchambers. Ejected from his father’s house at the age of sixteen, he now lives a life of wanton pleasure. So what could the Marquis of Chase possibly want with Juliana Merton, a lovely, perfectly upstanding shopkeeper with a mysterious past?A moment’s indiscretion?A night’s passion?Or a lifetime of love?Even the wildest rakes have their weaknesses . . .

Lord Bleykni vovse ne planiroval predavat'sya tikhim radostyam semeynoy zhizni – naoborot, po vozvrashchenii v London posle dvukhletnego otsutstviya on sobiralsya vdovol' poveselit'sya s legkomyslennymi kurtizankami. . .Umnaya, nezavisimaya Minerva Montrouz nikogda ne stremilas' zamuzh, a tem boleye vykhodit' za nikchemnogo na yeye vzglyad povesu vrode Bleykni. . .No uvy! Malen'koye nedorazumeniye na balu, i reputatsiya Minervy beznadezhno skomprometirovana, a Bleykni teper' obyazan zhenit'sya na «pogublennoy» im devushke. .Konechno, svad'ba yeshche ne konets sveta – umnyye lyudi vsegda sumeyut sokhranit' svobodu v brake. . .Odnako plany Minervy i yeye zakonnogo supruga treshchat po shvam, kogda v igru vmeshivayetsya ne priznayushchaya ni dogovorennostey, ni dovodov rassudka pylkaya strast'…