title: Beguiled
author: Parker, Laura
description: She'd scandalized polite society. Now she sought revenge.
  
  In a cold fury Miss Philadelphia Hunt stood before the throng of former friends and took over the auction of her precious family gems. With burning topaz eyes and incorruptible beauty, she challenged them to buy her disgraced father's estate. Then she left, penniless, Chicago society's castoff, vowing to find and destroy the man who drove her father to ruin. That was when the dark, commanding stranger strode into her life with a proposition she couldn't refuse. ... Tall, dark, devastating Eduardo Tavares swept her into a world of danger and desire, of deadly secrets and flashfire passion... even as she wondered who he was and why they seemed fated to meet...
  
  
  SHE'D SCANDALIZED POLITE SOCIETY. NOW SHE SOUGHT REVENGE.
  
  In a cold fury Miss Philadelphia Hunt stood before the throng of former friends and took over the auction of her precious family gems. With burning topaz eyes and incorruptible beauty, she challenged them to buy her disgraced father's estate. Then she left, penniless, Chicago society's castoff, vowing to find and destroy the man who drove her father to ruin. That was when the dark, commanding stranger strode into her life with a proposition she couldn't refuse.
  
  He said she was magnificent, the woman he needed to sell the jewels from his mines in Brazil. Together, in disguise, they would cut a swath through New York's upper crust, where she, posing as a mysterious, impoverished French aristocrat, would wear her "fabled family jewels" and increase their value beyond measure. Tall, dark, devastating Eduardo Tavares swept her into a world of danger and desire, of deadly secrets and flashfire passion...even as she wondered who he was and why they seemed fated to meet....