title: The Courtesan's Courtship
author:  Gail Ranstrom 
description: Gail Ranstrom always enjoyed a good tale of danger, adventure, action and romance of long ago times and distant lands. When the youngest of her three children began school, she put pen to paper and wrote her first novel, which is thankfully still under her bed. Her next efforts were more successful and she has been writing ever since as the award winning author of eight novels and two novellas. She loves to hear from readers, and you can visit her at: http://gailranstrom.com
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  ## “We’ve always been at sword-point in one way or another.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “I did not love you before.”
  
  
  He held his breath. “Do you…love me…now?”
  
  
  She shivered and her voice caught on a sigh. “Yes.”
  
  
  She loved him? But how could she? He’d flaunted her as a courtesan, warned her
  she could not trust him. But he’d never told her that she had taken his breath
  away the first time he’d ever seen her.
  
  
  “Dianthe,” he said, his voice cracking over the force of his emotions. “I…not
  a single one of your relatives would thank me for loving you, and a few would
  call me out. And they’d be right. I want nothing more than to despoil you.” He
  held her closer, burying his face in her hair and breathing in her scent.
  
  
  “Do not try to be noble,” she said. “Finish what you’ve begun…!”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Praise for Gail Ranstrom
  
  
  A Wild Justice
  
  
  “Gail Ranstrom certainly has both writing talent and original ideas.”
  
  
  —The Romance Reader
  
  
  Saving Sarah
  
  
  “Gail Ranstrom has written a unique