title: The Countess (Coulter Historical Romance)
author:  Catherine Coulter 
description: A good storytellerCoulter always keeps the pace brisk.<i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i><br /><br />Ms. Coulter is a one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more.<i>The Best Reviews</i><br /><br />Coulter is excellent at portraying the romantic tension between her heroes and heroines, and she manages to write explicitly but beautifully about sex as well as love.<i>Milwaukee Journal</i><br /><br />Coulter instinctively feeds our desire to believe in knights in shining armor and everlasting lovehistorical romance at its finest.BookReporter.com<br /><br />One of the genres great storytellers.<i>Kansas City Star</i><br /><br />One of the masters of the genre.<i>The Newark Star-Ledger</i><br /><br />Catherine Coulter is one of the best authors of exciting thrillers writing today.<i>Midwest Book Review</i>
zlib_text: THE GENEROUS EARL
  
  Catherine Coulter
  
  Table of Contents
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Version Notes
  
  Chapter 1
  The Honorable Miss Felicity Trammerley, eldest daughter of the Earl of Braecourt, had long ago
  determined in her own mind exactly what was due to her, particularly from her betrothed, the Duke of
  Portmaine. That he believed her a docile, rather malleable young lady, was an impression that it had
  taken her no little pains to achieve, but it was a part she found at times trying. Particularly at the
  moment, after the duke had explained the purpose of his visit to her. Although she had succeeded in
  bringing him to the mark, their engagement having only the previous week been formally announced in
  the Gazette, she sensed that she must still tread lightly in reacting to his most recent display of selfish,
  and in her view, 