title: Prelude to Love
author: Smith, Joan
description: "WOMEN ARE BORN WITH A KNACK FOR DECEPTION. HOW ELSE COULD
  THEY EVER GET HUSBANDS TO MARRY THEM?"
  
  Deception is the key to Vanessa Bradford's secret mission. Entrusted with a letter of utmost importance to England's security--even survival--Vanessa encounters two handsome strangers. Both of them claim to want to help her. But Vanessa trusts neither of them, certain they are both French spies.
  
  Only one, however, is a spy and he attempts to prove to Vanessa that he is the patriot.
  
  Believing him is not Vanessa's first mistake. But it is very nearly her last...