title: The Seal Wife (Harlequin Presents, No 1285)
author: Eleanor Rees
description: Her reputation was on the line The domestic service agency that Cathy Aylward had proudly built single-handedly, had met its first failure--Adam Dale. He was an impossible man with impossible demands. But, tricked by his charming best friend, Nick Ballantyne, into dealing with the problem herself, Cathy set off for the remote Yorkshire dales. If only she'd known the truth or how deeply she would become involved, things might have been very different. Even so, it was a satisfaction-guaranteed ending!
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  His wife was pregnant. It could not be his child.
  
  He put his hand out on the wall to steady himself.
  
  She had cuckolded him. She had given herself to another man and now bore proof
  of her sin. Humiliation and dishonor would once more be his and his family’s
  to bear because of her. Everything within him screamed for vengeance.
  
  Unanswered questions burned through his mind. Then the plan behind this struck
  him. Queen Eleanor had definitely plotted this. Her words on their wedding
  night came back to him. There will be no repudiation of this marriage by
  either of you.
  
  But Emalie. What had been her part in this? Who had she lain with? Whose baby
  did she carry now?
  
  He almost laughed at the irony. He had sold his soul to regain his honor and
  now stood to lose it anyway, once the truth was known….
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Praise for new Harlequin Historical author Terri Brisbin
  
  “A lavish historical romance in the grand tradition from a wonderful talent.”
  
  —New York Times bestselling autho