title: The Wild Baron (Baron Novels)
author:  Catherine Coulter 
description: Charade meets Raiders of the Lost Ark in this Regency-period romantic adventure from the author of Rosehaven. Coulter, renown for off-the-wall plotlines, offers a little of everything?spice, mystery, murder and the search for the Holy Grail?as she tells the story of the Carrington clan. The Carrington brothers are not what they seem; Rohan, famed for his debauchery, is actually quite saintly. His late brother, George, thought to be a scholarly wimp, had been a heartless rake. When commoner Suzannah Hawlworth announces that she is George's widow, her life is threatened by someone who believes she possesses a valuable map. To protect Suzannah and her young daughter, Rohan brings them to his London townhouse and marries her. They soon discover that a locket George had given her contains not only a map, but a key to a cask that holds a magical chalice and the future of humanity. The sudden switch from Jane Austen to Steven Spielberg is disconcerting to say the least, but Coulter's sense of humor and solid writing manage to make it work in the end. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Baron is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  
  A Loveswept eBook Edition
  
  Copyright © 1999 by Juliana Garnett  
  Excerpt from The Notorious Lady Anne by Sharon Cullen copyright © 2013 by
  Sharon Cullen.  
  Excerpt from Along Came Trouble by Ruthie Knox copyright © 2013 by Ruth
  Homrighaus.  
  Excerpt from Strictly Business by Linda Cajio copyright © 1988 by Linda Cajio.
  
  All Rights Reserved.
  
  Published in the United States by Loveswept, an imprint of The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  LOVESWEPT is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
  
  The Baron was originally published in paperback by Bantam Fanfare, an imprint
  of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. in
  1999.
  
  Cover design: Lynn Andreozzi  
  Cover illustration: Aleta Rafton
  
  eISBN: 978-0-307-80611-6
  
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