title: Courting Midnight (The Upyr Series, Book 5) (Berkley Sensation)
author:  Emma Holly 
description: "Holly has created a whole new world...erotic and extremely sensual."<b>Escape to Romance</b>
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  Front Cover
  
   **Rises the Night**
  
   **By**
  
   **Colleen Gleason**
  
   **Contents**
  
   **Prologue A Widow Grieves**
  
  Chapter 1 In Which Lady Rockley's Weapon Is Alarmingly Ineffective
  
  Chapter 2 In Which Lady Rockley Disdains a Discussion Regarding Fashion and
  Becomes Overset Chapter 3 An Encounter with a Most Discreet Gentleman
  
  Chapter 4 In Which Verbena Has Her Way
  
   **Chapter 5 Of Balconies and Reprimands**
  
  Chapter 6 In Which a Rather Disruptive Evening Ensues
  
  Chapter 7 In Which a Disturbing Question Remains Unanswered
  
  Chapter 8 Of Smashed Toes, Chatty Drivers, and Inflation
  
  Chapter 9 In Which Mrs. Emmaline Withers Annoys an Italian Contessa
  
  Chapter 10 In Which Lady Rockley Acquires an Acute Dislike of Lavender
  
   **Chapter 11 Two Fortuitous Doors**
  
  Chapter 12 In Which Monsieur Vioget Calls a Bluff
  
   **Chapter 13 A Wager Is 