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On the way back from delivering a woman to safety in Scotland, Aurora Sprague, proprietor of the Sprague Agency for Distressed Females, is abducted by Major Alex Fenimore, the husband who abandoned her immediately after their wedding years ago. On the trail of a female spy feeding British secrets to the French, Alex has no idea that the woman across from him is the bride he left behind, and Aurora has no inkling that the man she considers "the most bumbling British agent in all of Christendom" is in fact her legal husband. Their search for the traitorous spy pushes Alex and Aurora together, but once the truth about their past surfaces, it threatens to destroy any feelings developing between them. A bit more sensual than most traditional Regencies, Pickens' latest romance offers a wonderfully spirited battle of wits that readers will just adore. Spiced with tart humor and graced with an intelligent, resourceful, and unconventional heroine, this is a Regency to savor.
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"The Banished Bride" by Andrea Pickens (March 2002)
Scandalous Secrets Book 1
At fourteen Aurora was offered as a winning bet in a game of chance. She was to become the bride to a son of the Earl of Woodbridge. She was heavily veiled and her inebriated groom forced to the altar. After the wedding the groom went off in his scarlet regimentals of a Lieutenant in The Horse Guards. When his father asked how long he would be gone he replied "I've no idea. The longer, the better".
Aurora was to be sent to one of the estates owned by her husband but she took off with her nanny who had inherited a small sum.
She and her nanny found out that her husband wasn't a total cad as he was sending her money every year. She didn't know where he was and after so many years (about 10) she didn't care. She ran a business called "The Sprague Agency for Distressed Females" . Going by the name of Aurora Sprague she saved wives threatened by their husbands and found out all sorts of information on unfaithful husbands. She had a girl who needed to be moved to Scotland and she had to take her there but in her haste she forgot about arranging for a companion for herself on the way back. So she he found herself with only her coachman.
Alex Fenimore (the groom) found out he was now the heir since his brother Charles had recently died of an illness. He was the new Earl of Woodbridge and was being released from his duties on the continent to return home but he didn't want to go. His commanding officer General Winthrop took pity on him and gave him one last assignment...to find a spy, a woman spy somewhere off the west coast of Scotland.
Unfortunately the act of Aurora being alone brought her to the attention of Alex who thought she was the spy. What a mad and interesting development this all becomes. Happy Reading! Reading Genie.
You might like some of the other books by Andrea Pickens:
A Diamond in the Rough
Second Chances
The Hired Hero
A Lady of Letters
The Major's Mistake
Scandalous Secrets Book 1
At fourteen Aurora was offered as a winning bet in a game of chance. She was to become the bride to a son of the Earl of Woodbridge. She was heavily veiled and her inebriated groom forced to the altar. After the wedding the groom went off in his scarlet regimentals of a Lieutenant in The Horse Guards. When his father asked how long he would be gone he replied "I've no idea. The longer, the better".
Aurora was to be sent to one of the estates owned by her husband but she took off with her nanny who had inherited a small sum.
She and her nanny found out that her husband wasn't a total cad as he was sending her money every year. She didn't know where he was and after so many years (about 10) she didn't care. She ran a business called "The Sprague Agency for Distressed Females" . Going by the name of Aurora Sprague she saved wives threatened by their husbands and found out all sorts of information on unfaithful husbands. She had a girl who needed to be moved to Scotland and she had to take her there but in her haste she forgot about arranging for a companion for herself on the way back. So she he found herself with only her coachman.
Alex Fenimore (the groom) found out he was now the heir since his brother Charles had recently died of an illness. He was the new Earl of Woodbridge and was being released from his duties on the continent to return home but he didn't want to go. His commanding officer General Winthrop took pity on him and gave him one last assignment...to find a spy, a woman spy somewhere off the west coast of Scotland.
Unfortunately the act of Aurora being alone brought her to the attention of Alex who thought she was the spy. What a mad and interesting development this all becomes. Happy Reading! Reading Genie.
You might like some of the other books by Andrea Pickens:
A Diamond in the Rough
Second Chances
The Hired Hero
A Lady of Letters
The Major's Mistake
