The Courtship (Sherbrooke)
Whoever said eavesdroppers never hear anything good was  never privy to the titillating conversation Spenser Heatherington,  Lord Beecham, overhears at a party. But then, there's nothing  retiring or at all usual about Helen Mayberry, daughter of  eccentric Lord Prith. Helen is a statuesque blue-eyed, blond  Aphrodite who owns her own inn and has read everything academic  and otherwise on the art of discipline. An inveterate womanizer, Heatherington determines--based on a conversation he wasn't  supposed to hear--that he would love to teach Helen what he knows  about the subject and maybe learn something new in the process.  When Helen tells Heatherington that she wants him for her partner,  he wholeheartedly agrees but is dismayed when she further explains  that she needs his skill to help locate a mythical golden lamp  rumored to make its possessor all-powerful. But both are  overwhelmed by their responses to each other--a passion that cannot be denied--in the middle of a fox hunt, in a rundown shack,  on the floor of her father's study.... Marked byThe New York  Timesbestselling author Catherine Coulter's trademark wit and  sensuality,The Courtshipis a keeper!--Alison  Trinkle