title: A Reluctant Courtship (The Daughters of Bainbridge House)
author:  Laurie Alice Eakes 
description: <b>A woman without a prospect. A man without a homeland. Can love give them a future?<BR></b><BR>Honore Bainbridge has been courted by two men, one of whom turned out to be a traitor, the other a murderer. Banished to her family's country estate, where she will hopefully stay out of trouble, she finally meets the man she is sure is exactly right for her: Lord Ashmoor. Tall, dark, and handsome--what more could a girl ask for? <BR><BR>But he too is under suspicion because of his American upbringing and accusations that he has helped French prisoners escape from Dartmoor Prison. If he's to keep out of a British prison himself and secure his place in British society, Lord Ashmoor needs a wife beyond reproach--something the vexingly beautiful Honore certainly is not. Though they find themselves drawn to each other, family obligations may conspire to keep them apart forever.<BR><BR>For the sake of her heart, Honore determines to prove Ashmoor's innocence--even if doing so risks her own life.<BR><BR>From the first sentence, award-winning author Laurie Alice Eakes thrusts you into high drama amid the rocky cliffs of Devonshire, England, and keeps you suspended there until the final page.<BR><BR><BR><b>Laurie Alice Eakes</b> is the author of <i>Lady in the Mist</i>, <i>Heart's Safe Passage</i>, <i>Choices of the Heart</i>, <i>A Necessary Deception</i>, and <i>A Flight of Fancy</i>, which won the October 2012 Clash of the Titles Award, voted on by readers. She won a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007 for <i>Family Guardian</i>. Laurie Alice writes full-time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats. Visit www.lauriealiceeakes.com for more.
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