title: A Compromising Affair (The Harringtons)
author:  Gwynne Forster 
description: "ONCE IN A LIFETIME has to be read cover to cover. Once to devour the story and the next to savor it slowly and marvel at Ms. Forster's skill as a storyteller"<br />-RT Book Reviews on ONCE IN A LIFETIME<br /><br />"Gwynne Forster creates a fictional world of ideas and passion . . . delivered in accomplished prose that challenges us to think, feel, and imagine." - Robert Fleming
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  Finessing the Contessa  
  By Wendy Soliman
  
  Book three of The Forsters
  
  England, 1815
  
  Lord Robert Forster hopes to meet his match—on the chessboard. He jumps at the
  chance to cross rooks with the renowned Sicilian widow Contessa Electra
  Falzone. However, the lovely foreigner’s bold opening gambit raises concerns
  about her politics when she finds her way into his bedchamber, not with
  seduction in mind, but to steal state secrets.
  
  Electra Falzone has always avoided scandalous liaisons, until blackmail forces
  her to turn thief and risk her reputation in the arms of the handsome Lord
  Robert. If her manipulators were threatening only her, she would confess all
  to her fellow strategist. But given who will suffer if she fails, she can’t
  afford to take that risk.
  
  Drawn to the exotic contessa, Rob won’t allow her to be used as a pawn by an
  unscrupulous schemer. But if Electra is determined to play this dangerous game
  fo