Dangerous to Hold
It's 1815, and Catherine Courtnay lives the life of an independent woman in London, writing opinion pieces for one of the city's leading newspapers.   Until the evening Marcus Lytton, Earl of Wrotham accosts her outside a brothel, sure she's his missing wife, Catalina.    Catherine may look exactly like his Spanish bride,  but as he gets to know her, Marcus sees that Catherine is nothing like the deceitful wench who tricked him into marriage and ruined his life three years before. But Catherine may be able to help him anyway.   Marcus believes Catalina is in England.  He also believes she intends to remain hidden until he has been killed and she can claim the Wrotham fortune.   Marcus wonders what his wretched wife would do if her place was usurped, if an impostor paraded around London as Lady Wrotham.  It might just be enough to bring Catalina and her helpers out into the open where he can deal with them.  To Marcus's surprise, Catherine agrees to his half-witted scheme. Catherine may not be his Spanish wife, but she has her own reasons to hate the Earl of Wrotham.   Indeed, her only reason for agreeing to pose as his wife is to bring the mighty Earl down herself.   She more than anyone else knows just how black his heart truly is.  And finally, irrevocably she is going to make him pay for destroying her life.A page-turning adventure from the very beginning!  Don't start this book near bedtime, or Dangerous to Hold will become dangerous to your sleep.  You'll have to stay up half the night to find out what happens!  Once again, Elizabeth Thornton has taken the perfect ingredients--tight plotting, strong conflict, and smooth characters, and sewn them into a seamless romp!  No one knows how to keep the action building better than Elizabeth Thornton!Annette Carney  --Copyright © 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc.  All rights reserved--FromLiterary Times