title: A Reluctant Courtship (The Daughters of Bainbridge House)
author:  Laurie Alice Eakes 
description: <b>A woman without a prospect. A man without a homeland. Can love give them a future?<BR></b><BR>Honore Bainbridge has been courted by two men, one of whom turned out to be a traitor, the other a murderer. Banished to her family's country estate, where she will hopefully stay out of trouble, she finally meets the man she is sure is exactly right for her: Lord Ashmoor. Tall, dark, and handsome--what more could a girl ask for? <BR><BR>But he too is under suspicion because of his American upbringing and accusations that he has helped French prisoners escape from Dartmoor Prison. If he's to keep out of a British prison himself and secure his place in British society, Lord Ashmoor needs a wife beyond reproach--something the vexingly beautiful Honore certainly is not. Though they find themselves drawn to each other, family obligations may conspire to keep them apart forever.<BR><BR>For the sake of her heart, Honore determines to prove Ashmoor's innocence--even if doing so risks her own life.<BR><BR>From the first sentence, award-winning author Laurie Alice Eakes thrusts you into high drama amid the rocky cliffs of Devonshire, England, and keeps you suspended there until the final page.<BR><BR><BR><b>Laurie Alice Eakes</b> is the author of <i>Lady in the Mist</i>, <i>Heart's Safe Passage</i>, <i>Choices of the Heart</i>, <i>A Necessary Deception</i>, and <i>A Flight of Fancy</i>, which won the October 2012 Clash of the Titles Award, voted on by readers. She won a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007 for <i>Family Guardian</i>. Laurie Alice writes full-time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats. Visit www.lauriealiceeakes.com for more.
zlib_text: _**STOLEN AWAY**_
  
  _**A Regency Novella**_
  
  _**by**_
  
  _**Shannon Donnelly**_
  
  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  _Was he never going to ask her the question?_
  
  Hands stilling on the arrangement of already perfect peach China roses, Audrey
  strained to hear Chloe’s delighted cry. That would, of course, be Chloe’s
  reaction to a declaration of marriage. Chloe never seemed to think of
  restraining any feeling, but perhaps this occasion merited such uninhibited
  enthusiasm. After all, why not be delighted about marriage to Lord Arncliffe?
  
  Audrey let out a sigh. Frowning, she pulled her attention back to the moment.
  
  Why no screech of delight, however muffled by the oak drawing room door? The
  hall clock ticked. A bird twittered in an empty-headed fashion in the back
  garden of the narrow London town house, and the faint rumble of carriage
  wheels echoed up from Half Moon Street.
  
  Audrey edged closer to the drawing room. Were those Arncliffe’s deep tones she
  could almost hear? Was he asking the question even now? 