Bronwyn Scott - Unbefitting a Lady

Duke of Rothermere Castonbury Park

Phaedra,

My darling and determined daughter. Your wild free spirit is infectious and I wouldn’t want to change you for the world, but I am not getting any younger and having a tomboy for a daughter is proving somewhat tiresome. On more than one occasion I have had to ask you to change out of your breeches and remove straw from your hair when I have guests visiting Castonbury, and I am sorry to say this can’t go on for ever.

I know I cannot forbid you to ride your beloved horses and seeing how much joy they give you makes me a happy man, but please—for me—try and spend a little less time in the stables and a little more time in the drawing room …!

Your weary father

BRONWYN SCOTTis a communications instructor at Pierce College in the United States and is the proud mother of three wonderful children (one boy and two girls). When she’s not teaching or writing, she enjoys playing the piano, travelling—especially to Florence, Italy—and studying history and foreign languages.

Readers can stay in touch on Bronwyn’s website, www.bronwynnscott.com or at her blog, www.bronwynswriting.blogspot.com—she loves to hear from readers.

Previous novels from Bronwyn Scott:

PICKPOCKET COUNTESS

NOTORIOUS RAKE, INNOCENT LADY

THE VISCOUNT CLAIMS HIS BRIDE

THE EARL’S FORBIDDEN WARD

UNTAMED ROGUE, SCANDALOUS MISTRESS

A THOROUGHLY COMPROMISED LADY

SECRET LIFE OF A SCANDALOUS DEBUTANTE

UNBEFITTING A LADY + * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE HOW TO DISGRACE A LADY * * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE

* UNBEFITTING A LADY + * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE HOW TO DISGRACE A LADY * * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + UNBEFITTING A LADY + * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE HOW TO DISGRACE A LADY * * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE * UNBEFITTING A LADY + * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE HOW TO DISGRACE A LADY * * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE * Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE Rakes Beyond Redemption trilogy + Castonbury Park Regency mini-series And in Mills & Boon ® Historical eBooks: LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE Castonbury Park Regency mini-series

And in Mills & Boon ®Historical eBooks:

LIBERTINE LORD, PICKPOCKET MISS

PLEASURED BY THE ENGLISH SPY

WICKED EARL, WANTON WIDOW

ARABIAN NIGHTS WITH A RAKE

AN ILLICIT INDISCRETION

PRINCE CHARMING IN DISGUISE

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For Catie and Lady, and all your horses that have come before

and the ones that will come after. Keep your heels down,

always sight your next jump, get deep in the corners and,

above all, don’t squeeze that horse unless you want the

big girl to run. Love, Mom.

Buxton, Derbyshire, March 1817

He was magnificent. Lean-flanked through the hips, well-muscled through the thighs of his long legs, his face framed aristocratically with the darkest, glossiest of hair that was perhaps a bit too long for convention, giving way to the strength of his broad chest. There was no doubt he was a male specimen beyond compare. Only the fire in his dark eyes belied his perfection. But Phaedra Montague liked a little temper.

She could ride that body all day long. Already her own body was anticipating the feel of him between her legs, her thighs tightening around him, urging him on. He turned her direction, eyes locking on her in the crowd. His infamous temper was rising. She could see it in the way he held himself, tense and alert as if his strength might be required of him at any moment. That temper had led him to the auction block and it would lead him to her. Today, she would bid on him and she would win.

She already thought of him as hers.

Her colt. Warbourne. She would have him and no other.