The runaway countess
By: Leigh LaValle
Publisher: Samhain Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cincinnati, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781609289010
Subjects: Fiction; Social conditions; Thieves; Romans, nouvelles; Conditions sociales; Voleurs
Description: Once the darling of high society, Mazie Chetwyn knows firsthand how quickly the rich and powerful turn their backs on the less fortunate. Orphaned, penniless and determined to defy their ruthless whims, she joins forces with a local highwayman who steals from the rich to give to the poor. Then the pawn broker snitches, and Mazie is captured by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. A man who is far too handsome, far too observant ... and surely as corrupt as his father once was. Sensible, rule-driven Trent Carthwick, twelfth Earl of Radford, is certain the threat of the gallows will prompt the villagers' beloved Angel of Kindness to reveal the highwayman's identity. But his bewitching captive volunteers nothing except a sultry, bewildering kiss.