title: Masquerading Mistress
author:  Sophia James 
description: Georgette Heyer novels formed Sophia Jamess reading tastes as a teenager. But her writing life only started when she was given a pile of Mills &amp; Boons to read after she had had her wisdom teeth extracted! Filled with strong painkillers she imagined that she could pen one, too. Many drafts later Sophia thinks she has the perfect job writing for Harlequin Historical as well as taking art tours to Europe with her husband, who is a painter.
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  Sophia James
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MASQUERADING MISTRESS
  
  TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON  
  AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG  
  STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID  
  PRAGUE • WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND
  
  To my twin sister, Karen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  Prologue
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Epilogue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  1794
  
  England
  
  His hand brushed the side of her face and he smiled as she skipped away, the
  sun in her red-blonde hair. To take hold of Eloise St Clair was like
  containing smoke. She never stopped. Never waited for him to catch her up or
  slow her down.
  
  Even here after their tryst in the woods she didn’t tarry, her jacket buttoned
  and her boots relaced. Maxwell hoped that she felt the same joy as he did in
  their lovemaking and the thought w