title: Jack's Tale
author: Aunt Trudy
description: Trudy is a retired nurse practitioner who has written and taught workshops for the older adult. This is her first venture into the wonderworld of writing for children but has had the dream from a young age. While not having children of her own, she has been "Aunt Trudy" to many young ones and has always had a path to to her inner child.
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  SHE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE IF HE IS LYING—ASIDE FROM HER VIRTUE…
  
  Jack Worth lives a life of roguish adventure, money-making schemes and ever-
  changing women. He’ll be damned if he settles down and finds a wife…until he
  inherits a noble title and estate—but without the riches.
  
  Distant cousin Laurel is the unwitting heiress to all the money. Brought up in
  a Spanish convent, and longing for a family of her own, she’s prepared to
  enter into a marriage of convenience. Finding a home in Jack’s arms is more
  than she could have dreamed about, but deception and mistaken identities test
  her newfound love to the limit.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The way Jack had first seen her—  
  face red with anger, eyes flashing,  
  tight little chignon askew and one sleeve torn at the shoulder seam—had roused
  his protective instinct to the maximum. She needed him on a level that no
  woman ever had before.
  
  He knew he would miss the women who welcomed him with open arms and merry
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