title: Secrets of the Night (A Mallorean Novel)
author:  Jo Beverley 
description: "Delightfully spicy...skillfully plotted and fast paced." -<b>Booklist</b>
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  SECRETS OF THE NIGHT
  
  JO BEVERLEY
  
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  First published by Topaz, an imprint of New American Library, a division of
  Penguin Putnam Inc.
  
  First Printing, July 1999
  
  Copyright © Jo Beverley, 1999 All rights reserved
  
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  This book would not have taken full form without my husband’s willingness to
  drive me round and round the Yorkshire dales; without my critique group making
  me keep focus; and without the generous advice of fellow writer Sue Stewart,
  who knows so much about the intimate life of horses.
  
  And, of course, without my editor, Audrey LaFehr, who can always see ways to
  make a novel stronger.
  
  Thanks to all the above, and to old friends Glyn and Jeff Dobson, whose
  hospitality helped me get back under the skin of the north of England after so
  many years away.
  
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  Chapter 1
  
  North Yorkshire, August 1762
  
  It was a simple matter to sin, wasn’t it? Didn’t they call it the “primrose
  path of dalliance”?
  
  In the swaying, rumbling coach, Rosamunde Overton sat at