title: Dishonor And Desire
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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  ‘Dance with me,’ he whispered.
  
  
  My eyes must have reflected my doubts, but he did not accept my refusal.
  Standing abruptly, he held out a hand and raised me to my feet, leading me
  like a sleepwalker into the ballroom, where we joined the end of the line,
  moving into the steps as we went, turning, parting, closing, balancing.
  
  If there were stares of disapproval neither of us noticed, only the slow and
  stately steps that moved us apart and together again, our bodies and hands
  just touching, like those six years condensed into six minutes. His eyes were
  brazen with desire, and mine were speaking of I know not what, except too much
  of my feelings. I knew then that I was losing control, that I was showing him
  what was in my secret heart, because, with his outspoken talk of wanting me,
  he had found a way in.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Juliet Landon’s keen interest in art and history, both of which she used to
  teach, combined with a fertile imagination, make writing historical novels a
  favou