title: Miss Dalrymple's Virtue: A Harlequin Regency Romance
author:  Margaret Westhaven 
description: Passions ran high under the Mexican sun
  
  Jewelry designer Cassandra Elliot looked forward to her combined business and vacation trip to Mexico. She'd explore the famed Ibarra gem mines while enjoying the local culture and customs.
  
  Her dream began to fade when her boss's selfish son, Derek Prentice, decided to accompany her. Worse still, when Miguel Ibarra, their Mexican contact, met them at the airport, he made it clear they were not welcome.
  
  Miguel was handsome and haughty, with a fiancee whose manner matched his--and yet Cassandra was hopelessly drawn to him. It was as if Miguel possessed a force as primitive as the Aztec gods.
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  “So pensive, Miss?”
  
  Lillian whirled around to find a man in shirtsleeves standing beneath the
  willow. A groundskeeper or stable master. She turned away without speaking.
  
  A chuckle caused a chill to shiver up her spine. “Miss Lillian, is it not?”
  
  “Miss O’Rourke,” she corrected.
  
  The man came around the bench and gave her an impudent smile. She felt
  breathless and nervous. He’d been eavesdropping.
  
  “Well, Miss O’Rourke, you are to become a duchess. What good fortune.”
  
  She tilted her nose upward, feigning indifference.
  
  “You can speak to me. I promise I do not bite.”
  
  She glanced at him again and noted he had an expensive jacket slung over one
  arm. Not a gardener. But more unsettling than she’d thought. No, he did not
  look suitable at all. He looked like the sort of man who would ruin a woman….
  
  Unlacing Lilly  
  
  
  Harlequin®
  
  
  Historical
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Praise for Gail Ranstrom
  
  Lord Libertine
  
  “This dark tale…neatly juxtaposes the seamier side of the Regency period with
  the