title: The Ambassador's Wife's Tale
author:  Julia Miles 
description: <b>Julia Miles</b>was workingin the marketing department of the <i>Daily Mirror</i> when she met Oliver, who leftweeks laterfor a two-year posting in Aden. She would marry hima year into the posting.She later became asocial worker.
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  Two adventurous spirits
  
  Julia Howard longs for the freedom her inheritance will bring her—but with her
  controlling brother holding the purse strings, she’s going to need a most
  convenient engagement… An encounter in the woods with a dashing stranger
  couldn’t be more timely.
  
  Wounded, his life at sea at an end, Captain James Covington isn’t prepared for
  the dull ache of civilian life. He sees in Julia a fellow adventurous
  spirit—willing to risk all. Could agreeing to her outrageous proposal help him
  recapture a reason to live as they face the biggest adventure of all—marriage?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She whirled to face him, closing the short distance between them. “How dare
  you address me in such an intimate manner?”
  
  “I think it only fitting, since we’re engaged.”
  
  There it was again, his knowing smile, the one she found so infuriating. What
  was it about this man who annoyed her with such charm?
  
  “Yes, engaged, and not even that, yet you already act