title: Secrets of the Marriage Bed (Harlequin Historical)
author:  Ann Lethbridge 
description: Ann Lethbridge majored in history and business. She always loved the glamorous, if rather risky, Georgians and in particular the Regency era as drawn by Georgette Heyer. It was that love that prompted her to write her first Regency novel in 2000. She found she enjoyed it so much she just couldnt stop! Ann gave up a career in university administration to focus on her first love, writing novels and lives in Canada with her family. Visit her website at: www.annlethbridge.com
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  “I am afraid I may have damaged your  
  reputation, Miss Wythenshawe.”  
  Mr. Blackwood said bluntly
  
  “Because you kissed me?”
  
  He squeezed her fingers.
  
  “Just being alone here with me is enough to compromise you.”
  
  “I am not known here, sir. Neither are you. Who are they likely to tell?”
  
  “A few judicious coins in the right hands might secure the silence of anyone
  at this inn. Are you willing to trust that no one will find out about our
  being here together?”
  
  She gave him a little smile.
  
  “What is the alternative, Mr. Blackwood?”
  
  He shrugged.
  
  “That we marry, I suppose.”
  
  To Catch a Husband…
  
  Harlequin® Historical #307—May 2011
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Author Note
  
  I live in the north of England and when I am out walking, it is not uncommon
  to come across huge stone blocks tumbled amongst the trees in the bottom of
  some remote, wooded valley—the remains of an early spinning mill. These mills
  were built more than two hundred years ago, when the industrial revolution was
  just beginni