title: Engaging the Earl (Love Inspired Historical)
author:  Mandy Goff 
description: Mandy Goff resides in Greenville, SC, with her husband and four-old-year daughter. She attended North Greenville University and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English. Her first book, The Blackmailed Bride (Love Inspired Historical Feb 2011) earned 4 stars from Romantic Times Book Reviews, and was dubbed a "wonderful Regency romance." Engaging the Earl is her second novel.
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  The Complicated Earl
  
  Prologue
  
  Tom ran up the large oak staircase, almost stumbling in his hurry to follow
  the sound drifting tantalisingly down the stairs. He reached the first floor
  and rushed down the hallway to approach his mother’s dressing room. The sound
  came from beyond the closed door, the sound of his mother’s laughter. It was
  so rare to hear her laughter ringing through the large house that he had been
  drawn to hear it, desperate for the sound to continue, for it to seep through
  every corner of the house and make it feel warm and inviting unlike the cold
  place it usually was. He reached for the door, a smile already on his lips, it
  was not often his mother and father laughed together and the urge to be part
  of a happy moment was irresistible to a lonely young boy. He opened the door
  quietly, not wanting to stop the moment by his entrance, but wanting to join
  in, the need in him to belong to something warm and happy was almost physical.
  The door revealed hi