title: A Masquerade in the Moonlight
author:  Kasey Michaels 
description: Michaels ( The Bride of the Unicorn ) packs this historical romance, set in England in the early 1800s, with nostalgia and transparent mystery, but she manages to keep the narrative engaging. At the age of 18, Marguerite Balfour comes to believe that her father's death six years earlier was a suicide. Going through his journals she learns of the Club, a group of five men who lured Balfour into an unwise business investment. The Club gave him the chance to recoup his losses by murdering their political adversary; Balfour apparently chose instead to take his own life. Soon after, Marguerite makes her debut in London and plans the downfall of the Club. Its members are negotiating the covert, and treasonous, sale of ships and supplies to the U.S., which is slowly moving toward war with England. Thomas Joseph Donovan, the headstrong Irish-American sent to London to investigate the deal, encounters Marguerite at a ball and quickly realizes he's met his match. Marguerite is at first suspicious of his involvement with the Club, but ultimately decides she can have both love and revenge as the two unite against unforeseen danger. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Moonlight Masquerade
  
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  Kasey Michaels
  
  writing as Michelle Kasey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  To my son, Eddie, who can see the good inside, and always takes the time to
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  Electronic Edition Copyright 2012: Kathryn A. Seidick
  
  Published by Kathryn A. Seidick, 2012
  
  Cover art by Tammy Seidick Design,
  [www.tammyseidickdesign.com](http://www.tammyseidickdesign.com/)
  
  E-Book design by [A Thirsty Mind](http://www.athirstymind.com/)
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
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  written permission of the author.
  
  Originally published 1989
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  Table of Contents
  
  [Alphabet Regency Titles](index_split_004.html#filepos6504)
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_005.html#filepos8427)
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_006.html#filepos19588)
  
  [Chapter 3](ind