Loretta Chase: Last Night's Scandal, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Short description

Another deliciously passionate and emotionally rich romance from New York Times bestselling author Loretta Chase, about an unlikely pair who just can t escape each other--no matter how hard they try.

Description

After years of living dangerously in Egypt, there is nothing in London to interest Peregrine Dalmay, Earl of Lisle-well, except for one dramatic and devious redhead--the same one who years ago inadvertently helped him find his calling. What he wants is to return to pyramids, tombs, mummies, papyri, and villains. What he doesn t want is to get entangled again with the redhead who s turned into a voluptuous armful with an exasperating ability to unhinge him. Olivia Wingate-Carsington is trouble--and born that way, a descendant of the Dreadful DeLuceys, notorious swindlers and bigamists. Though her family s done its best to civilize her, she can t seem to settle down with even the most dashing of aristocratic husbands-to-be. She s on her third engagement when Lord Lisle returns. So what if he s tall and gorgeous and temptingly untamable? So what if he s the only man who can make her heart go thumpety-thump? He doesn t have a romantic bone in his body. Worse, he can see right through her and says so. He couldn t be more wrong for her. But when the oh-so-wrong-for-each-other pair ends up on a 400-mile journey with a gaggle of elderly ladies in tow, to take on a gloomy Scottish castle haunted by spiteful ghosts and murderous villains-they may just realize the scariest thing of all is that they re made for each other.

Blurb

After surviving the perils of Egypt, Peregrine Dalmay, Earl of Lisle, is back in London, facing the most dire threat of all: his irrational family . . . and Miss Olivia Wingate-Carsington. A descendant of notorious---but very aristocratic---swindlers, the delectable redhead has the ability to completely unhinge him and a long history of dragging him into her scandalous schemes.

Olivia may be Society's darling, but she's aware a respectable future looms menacingly. And so when Lisle is forced to go on a family mission, she sees this as the perfect chance for one last adventure---even if it is with the one man in the world she can't wrap around her finger. But really, she only wants to help . . .

Which is why Lisle and Olivia find themselves in a gloomy Scottish castle inhabited by spiteful ghosts and craven murderers . . . and a shocking secret: the greatest peril of all may be burning within their own stubborn hearts.