title: The Rake's Unconventional Mistress
author:  Juliet Landon 
description: Juliet Landon is a professional embroiderer and lecturer, whose two disciplines go perfectly hand in hand. When shes not doing one, shes doing the other, often both on the same day. Her stories develop in her mind while stitches form on the fabric, and the one that wins depends on urgency and inclination. Juliet has been nominated for the Romantic Fiction Writer's Award, and she currently has at least another hundred ideas waiting to be released in the future.
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  A Matter of Choice
  
  
  by Laura Landon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  Joshua Camden, ninth Marquess of Montfort, saw her in the distance, and
  smiled.
  
  
  Even though she stood with her back to him, his gut tightened when her fiery
  copper hair glistened. The unique coloring was like a magnet that drew him to
  her. She was truly a vision of loveliness: her small, lithe body waiting to be
  held, the smooth, creamy skin of her shoulders bared in anticipation of his
  touch, her long, graceful neck begging to be kissed.
  
  
  She was almost hidden in the shadowy darkness off the stone pathway in a far
  off corner of the garden. There wasn’t a doubt why she was here. Why she’d
  chosen this secluded spot for their rendezvous.
  
  
  The clouds chose that exact moment to let the moonlight wash over her. His
  body reacted with alarming desperation and he hastened his steps.
  
  
  He was glad she was so lost in thought she didn’t hear him approach. He wanted
  to take her by surprise, to ho