title: Midsummer Night's Madness
author: Jill Barnett
description: The first of four stories about a Midsummer night is A Knight in Tarnished Armor by Jill Barnett.  The lovely Lady Linnet of Ardenwood will do anything to avoid marrying the horrible Baron Warbrooke.  She asks the mercenary William de Ros to escort her to a convent to escape her would-be husband.  What Linnet doesn't know is that her grandfather has given Baron Warbrooke one week to woo Linnet and convince her to marry him.  But Linnet is beginning to have feelings for William-- who has a secret of his own.  In A Ribbon of Moonlight by Elaine Coffman, Quinn Scott, Marquess of Waverly, finds out he has become the guardian of a distant cousin's daughter.  Assuming the girl is a child, he doesn't realize that the pretty woman he has been watching at a masquerade ball is the girl Catherine Flowers.  When he discovers who she is, it is already too late-- he has kissed her.  To Catherine, Quinn is everything she could want in a man.  But he is trying to marry her off to avoid facing his feelings about her.  Enchanted by Alexis Harrington is set in Oregon in 1875.  Leah Whitman runs Whitman's Dry Goods, right next door to the gunsmith, Austin Ryder.  Soon to be married, Leah isn't as taken in by Austin's good looks as the rest of the women in town.  When a mysterious man named Professor Xavier Sortilege gives her an amulet that will bring her true love to her, Leah is skeptical.  But when she begins to dream about Austin after he mistakenly kisses her, she begins to wonder.  A legend about a pirate's treasure brings Nell Jolley and Sebastian Kane together in The Golden Mermaid by Sonia Simone.  Nell thinks she has conjured up the pirate Despicable Jack when she first meets Sebastian on the beach in the Florida keys.  But her father and Sebastian are searching for a gold statue, the Bathing Maenad.  When her father is injured, Nell decides to stow away Sebastian's ship to make sure he doesn't keep the statue for himself.  Sebastian is often frustrated and occasionally amused by the whirlwind Nell.  She has been raised with unconventional beliefs and Sebastian finds himself wondering what life would be like with such a woman.Four captivating stories by four beloved authors!  An enchanting anthology! Each story in Midsummer Night's Madness is special!  A delightful collection that combines romance and fate! Pure magic!   The authors have done a splendid job of weaving  bewitching tales about a midsummer night and the power of love!Kristina Wright  -- <i>Copyright  1994-97 Literary Times, Inc.  All rights reserved</i> -- <i>From <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/literary-times.html/${0}">Literary Times</a></i>
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  “What happened?” he asked her.
  
  “I hit you in the head with a pot.”
  
  He was not surprised. He heard the worried whispers of his men. The squires
  and many of his men-at-arms formed a ring around them.
  
  Lady Clio was still searching his face for something while she chewed on her
  lower lip.
  
  His gaze locked with hers. “Was I good?”
  
  She frowned, clearly startled. “Good at what?”
  
  “Whatever it was that made you fling a pot at me.”
  
  He heard his men laugh. Yet she did not. She looked angry. She had hit him
  with a pot, and there was no contrition in her expression, nor in her manner.
  
  He stared long and hard at her lips, for they were the only color on her face.
  They were stained red and looked sweet and inviting and as if she had reddened
  them to torture him.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Novels of Jill Barnett
  
  The Novels of Jill Barnett  
  Now Available Or Coming Soon In Ebook  
  From Bell Bridge Books:
  
  JUST A KISS AWAY
  
  BEWITCHING
  
  DREAMING
  
  IMAGINE
  
  CARRIED AWAY
  
  WONDERFUL
  
  WILD
  
  WICKED
  