title: A Touch of Mercy: Book 5 of the Realm Series (Volume 5)
author:  Regina Jeffers 
description: Regina Jeffers, a public classroom teacher for thirty-nine years, considers herself a Jane Austen enthusiast. She is the author of several Austen-inspired novels, including Darcys Passions, Darcys Temptation, Vampire Darcys Desire, Captain Wentworths Persuasion, The Phantom of Pemberley, Christmas at Pemberley, The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy, Honor and Hope, and The Mysterious Death of Mr. Darcy. She also writes Regency romances: The Scandal of Lady Eleanor, A Touch of Velvet, A Touch of Cashmere, A Touch of Grace, His: Two Regency Novellas, and The First Wives Club. A Smithsonian presenter, a Time Warner Star Teacher and Martha Holden Jennings Scholar, Jeffers often serves as a consultant in language arts and media literacy. Currently living outside Charlotte, North Carolina, she spends her time with her writing, gardening, and her adorable grandson.
zlib_text:   
  
  A Touch of Mercy
  
    
  
  By Regina Jeffers
  
    
  
  White Soup Press
  
    
  
  Copyright 2013 by Regina Jeffers
  
  Cover Design by Sarah Callaham
  
  Interior Text Design by Sarah Callaham
  
  All Rights Reserved.
  
    
  
  No part of this book may be used or reproduced or transmitted in any manner
  (electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any
  information storage and retrieval system) whatsoever without written
  permission from the author, except in case of a brief quotation embodied in
  critical articles and reviews.
  
    
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
    
  
  White Soup Press
  
    
  
  ISBN: 9780615813820
  
    
  
    
  
  A Touch of Mercy
  
    
  
   _(Book 5 of the Realm Series)_
  
    
  
  White Soup Press
  
    
  
   **Table of Contents**
  
   _Cast of Characters_
  
    
  
   _Prologue_
  
   _Chapter 1_
  
   _Ch