She turned completely, ignoring her healing arm, and held him. “You weren’t responsible for the bombing,” she said fiercely. “You didn’t know.”
His laugh was without humor. “Ignorance is a poor excuse.”
She gave him a tiny shake, the best she could manage given how much bigger he was. “Being a martyr is annoying. You told me that when the captain married us and I wanted to keep my face covered. So if I’m not allowed to be a martyr then neither are you.”
This time his laugh was real. “All right. We’ll be two completely unmartyred vagabonds for the time being. Until we get home.”
She kissed him, sweet and full. “Until we get home,” she echoed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANNE STUART is a grand master of the genre, winner of the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award and survivor of close to forty years in the romance business—and she still just keeps getting better.
Her first novel was Barrett’s Hill, a gothic romance published by Ballantine in 1974 when Anne had just turned twenty-five. Since then she’s written more gothics, as well as Regencies, romantic suspense, romantic adventure, series romance, suspense, historical romance, paranormal, and mainstream contemporary romance.
She’s won numerous awards, appeared on most best-seller lists, and speaks all over the country. Her general outrageousness has gotten her on Entertainment Tonight, as well as in Vogue, People, USA Today, Woman’s Day, and countless other national newspapers and magazines.
When she’s not traveling, she’s at home in northern Vermont with her luscious husband of thirty-eight years, an empty nest, three cats, and four sewing machines, and when she’s not working, she’s watching movies, listening to rock and roll (preferably Japanese), and spending far too much time quilting.
Anne Stuart, Never Kiss a Rake
(Series: Scandal at the House of Russell # 1)
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