Louise Allen - Beguiled by Her Betrayer

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FORBIDDEN JEWEL OF INDIA †† †† Linked by character and as a Mills & Boon ® special release: REGENCY RUMOURS and in the Silk & Scandal mini-series: THE LORD AND THE WAYWARD LADY THE OFFICER AND THE PROPER LADY and in Mills & Boon ® Historical Undone! eBooks: DISROBED AND DISHONOURED AUCTIONED VIRGIN TO SEDUCED BRIDE ** ** The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters † Danger & Desire †† Linked by character and as a Mills & Boon ® special release: REGENCY RUMOURS and in the Silk & Scandal mini-series: THE LORD AND THE WAYWARD LADY THE OFFICER AND THE PROPER LADY and in Mills & Boon ® Historical Undone! eBooks: DISROBED AND DISHONOURED AUCTIONED VIRGIN TO SEDUCED BRIDE ** Did you know that some of these novels are also available as eBooks? Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk Did you know that some of these novels are also available as eBooks? Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk

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FROM RUIN TO RICHES

UNLACING LADY THEA

SCANDAL’S VIRGIN

* Those Scandalous Ravenhursts

** The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters

† Danger & Desire

††Linked by character

and as a Mills & Boon ®special release:

REGENCY RUMOURS

and in the Silk & Scandal mini-series:

THE LORD AND THE WAYWARD LADY

THE OFFICER AND THE PROPER LADY

and in Mills & Boon ®Historical Undone! eBooks:

DISROBED AND DISHONOURED

AUCTIONED VIRGIN TO SEDUCED BRIDE ** ** The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters † Danger & Desire †† Linked by character and as a Mills & Boon ® special release: REGENCY RUMOURS and in the Silk & Scandal mini-series: THE LORD AND THE WAYWARD LADY THE OFFICER AND THE PROPER LADY and in Mills & Boon ® Historical Undone! eBooks: DISROBED AND DISHONOURED AUCTIONED VIRGIN TO SEDUCED BRIDE ** Did you know that some of these novels are also available as eBooks? Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk

Did you know that some of these novels are also available as eBooks? Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk

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Contents

Cover

Introduction

Author Note

Title Page

About the Author

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

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Historical Note

Copyright

Chapter One

Early April 1801—Upper Egypt

There was shade down there and water jars sweating themselves cool and the start of the green growth that ran from the desert edge into the banks of the Nile. Too soon. Quin lay flat on the hot sand of the dune’s crest and distracted himself from thirst, heat and the throbbing pain in his left arm by concentrating on the tent below.

Tent was perhaps too modest a word. It seemed to consist of several interior rooms surrounded by shaded areas formed by poles and flaps of fabric which, he supposed, would collapse to make outer walls at night.

It was an immaculately neat and well-organised encampment, although there were no servants to be seen. To one side was an animal shelter with hitching rail and trough, on the other a reed roof covered a cooking area. A thin wisp of smoke rose from the banked fire, there was no donkey tied to the rail and the only occupant appeared to be the man in shirtsleeves who sat at a table in the deep shade of an awning, his pen moving steadily across the paper in front of him.