title: The Deserving Mistress
author:  Carole Mortimer 
description: Carole Mortimer was born in England, the youngest of three children. She began writing in 1978, and has now written over one hundred and seventy books for Harlequin Mills and Boon. Carole has six sons, Matthew, Joshua, Timothy, Michael, David and Peter. She says, Im happily married to Peter senior; were best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.
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  A MISTRESS FOR STANSTED HALL
  
  
  FENELLA J MILLER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Mistress for Stansted Hall Copyright Fenella J Miller 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  Emma paused
  
  
  to call her son who was poking a stick into an interesting hole. “Jack,
  
  
  please keep up. It would not do to be tardy on the first day of my new
  
  
  employment.”
  
  
  She could only
  
  
  see his nankeen britches poking out as, for some reason,
  
  
  he’d stuck his head in the lush, green hedge. Her daughter, Mary, ran to
  
  
  extricate her little brother. The child bent down and peered through the hole.
  
  
  She shot backwards screaming in horror.
  
  
  “Mama,
  
  
  there’s a carriage coming. It will mow us down when it turns