title: The Italian's Blackmailed Mistress
author:  Jacqueline Baird 
description: When Jacqueline Baird is not busy writing she likes to spend her time travelling, reading and playing cards. She enjoys swimming in the sea when the weather allows. With a more sedentary lifestyle, she does visit a gym three times a week and has made the surprising discovery that she gets some of her best ideas while doing mind-numbingly boring exercises on the weight machines and airwalker. Jacqueline lives with her husband Jim in Northumberland.
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  “It is obvious to all who know you that it can only be a matter of time before
  you get embroiled in some real scandal….”
  
  “I will do no such thing!” Imogen replied.
  
  “It will be unavoidable, if you will go about kissing men on moonlit terraces.
  It is about time somebody took you in hand!”
  
  “I am well able to take care of myself! I do not need some man to take me in
  hand as you put it.”
  
  “On the contrary. You need a very strong man to keep you in line. I know only
  too well what you are capable of.”
  
  “How dare you! You were the one who grabbed me, and…mauled me about.”
  
  “You kissed me back,” the viscount pointed out. “And you enjoyed it.”
  
  The Viscount and the Virgin
  
  
    
  Harlequin®
  
  
  Historical #1012—October 2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  
  London, 1814
  
  A season of secrets, scandal and seduction!
  
  A darkly dangerous stranger is out for revenge, delivering a silken rope as
  his calling card. Through him, a long-forgotten scandal is reawakened. The
  notorious events of 17