BEN In Aroostook County, you’re never unaware of the remoteness of the area. It’s more than just the lack of people and buildings. The winds that blow down from the alpine ridges carry a pervasive scent of snow and some indefinable mixture of water and pine and inhospitable wilderness. The bitter cold feels dangerous up here. You plan around…
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ELLA I’m glowing. Positively radiating contentment. I’m so deliriously happy that not even the sound of the dryer buzzer blaring out from my bathroom can make a dent in my mood. If it didn’t drive the dogs berserk, I’d be singing. Two days ago, Ben and I had sex. Mind-blowing sex. Sex that was in turns gentle, rough, sweet, funny,…
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I stared at John once the spy was gone, attempting to suppress the desire for him that had bloomed within me when he had threatened the man. Like to like, I thought, my focus falling to his lips. Much as my quasi-serious plans for Aberdine’s demise had stirred my husband’s lust during our carriage ride, this display of his savagery…
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I know a secret about your husband, the notes read. I had scant time to contemplate them. Anyone here to mark my reaction would notice a prolonged absence. The letter went back into its envelope and then again into my reticule, the ties of which I knotted to protect the contents. My feet carried me swiftly to the mirror, where…
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Where many of the ton chose to make their homes outside of the crowded center of London, the Duchess of Amesbury had intentionally inserted herself into the middle of Mayfair, as though declaring herself the heavenly body around which the rest of the aristocracy orbited. The grand façade of the residence she had so recently purchased was wrought in stone…
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