title: The Temptress: The scandalous life of  Alice, Countess de Janze
author:  Paul Spicer 
description: Paul Spicer was born in South-east England, spent his childhood in Kenya and Jerusalem, attended Eton in the 1940s and has since spent his life travelling the world as a businessman. Married with two grown-up children, he divides his time between Dorset and Kenya. The Temptress: The Scandalous LIfe of Alice, Countess de Janze is his first biography.
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  A shameful past
  
  Alice Frobisher fled Paris to escape a scandalous secret. But when she’s
  trapped with dark and dangerous Ewen Tremain on his snowbound estate, Alice
  finds herself the subject of rumors once again…
  
  Ewen is immediately drawn to this dark-haired beauty, and would do
  anything—even marry her—to save her from ruin.
  
  But can Alice truly shake off her past and accept the happiness Ewen promises,
  or will she be forever caught in scandal’s tempestuous storm?
  
  “A fun, entertaining read.” —RT Book Reviews on Beauty in Breeches
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Placing his finger beneath her chin,  
  Ewen tipped her face up to his.
  
  “Would you care to tell me what the countess was referring to when she said
  you were already skating on thin ice? You told me you were betrothed and that
  when you walked away it caused a scandal. Is there anything else you want to
  tell me?”
  
  Shrugging his finger away, she shook her head. “No.”
  
  “There must have been something in