num_pages: 128
description: After attending the wedding of one of her closest friends and celebrating the betrothal of another Mrs. Felicity Randall is looking forward to spending a peaceful summer at her house in the country. Several months when she may do and say as she wishes without having to constantly be aware of her place in London Society as the respectable young widow of Major Stephen Randall. But before Fliss can manage her escape to the country she overhears a conversation in which two people discuss the murder of the new Earl of Winterbourne. Unable to see or identify either the man or the woman from her hiding place but aware of where the murder is to take place Fliss finds her plans for the summer changed completely and requiring she procure an invitation to the infamous house party hosted every summer by the notorious Lady Eckles. A house party at which no respectable widow would normally dare to show her face. Sinclair Montgomery has no time or patience for London society as it had no tolerance for his mother so many years ago when she eloped with her Scottish Highlander Sins own father. But when Sin unexpectedly inherits the title of the Earl of Winterbourne he has no choice but to go to England to view his new estates. It was certainly not his intention once there to find himself the guest at a summer house party. Although the rumors of debauchery and licentious behavior to be had there were certainly enough to pique his interest. Finding the beautiful Mrs. Felicity Randall waiting for him in his bedchamber the second night of his stay leads Sin to believe that perhaps all is not lost after all and he proceeds to make love to the delicate beauty. Until she informs him the only reason she came to his bedchamber has attended this house party at all is to warn him his life is in danger. That there is a plot afoot to murder him whilst he is there. Sin has only been in England a matter of days certainly not long enough to have antagonized anyone into wishing to murder him and leading him to wonder if the poor woman can possibly be deranged. It would be a great pity if that were to be the case when the sexual attraction between the two of them is instantaneous and highly combustibleAuthors Note: The stories in the Regency Unlaced Knight Security and Alpha Series have stronger sexual content and language than my other books. 
language: English
title: Taken by the Earl
publisher: Carole Mortimer