title: My Lady Notorious (A Mallorean Novel)
author:  Jo Beverley 
description: "A fast-paced, rip-roaring, and most delicious read. This one is a keeper." <b>Romantic Times</b>
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   **MY LADY NOTORIOUS**
  
   **Malloren - Book One**
  
  **JO BEVERLEY**
  
  SIGNET
  
  Copyright © Jo Beverley, 1993
  
  Excerpt of Lord of My Heart copyright © Jo Beverley, 1992
  
  All rights reserved
  
  PUBLISHER’ S NOTE
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments,
  events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  **Chapter 1**
  
  The great crested coach lurched along the Shaftesbury road, over ruts turned
  rock-like by a sharp November frost. Lounging inside, glossy boots up on the
  opposite seat, was a lazy-eyed young gentleman in a suit of dark blue laced
  with silver. His features were smooth, tanned, and on the pretty side of
  handsome, but his taste for decoration was m