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Автор Сара Маклейн

Praise for Sarah MacLean:

‘It’s another unforgettable love story with passion and power – power that will shake you to the core’ Romantic Times

‘One of the most wildly romantic books I’ve read in a long time’ Eloisa James

‘Enjoyable romps, witty banter and electric sexual tension’ Publishers Weekly

New York Times bestseller Sarah MacLean is the daughter of an Italian and an Englishwoman, who met in Paris and lived at one point or another in London, Rome, San Francisco and New York. Growing up in the shadow of adventure like that, is it any wonder that she became obsessed with great stories of great love?

Sarah holds degrees in History from Smith College and Harvard University. She now lives in New York City with her family and an enormous collection of romance novels. She loves to hear from readers.

By Sarah MacLean

The Rules of Scoundrels series:

A Rogue by Any Other Name

One Good Earl Deserves A Lover

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

Love by Numbers series:

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord

Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart

COPYRIGHT

Published by Piatkus

978-1-4055-2741-5

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 Sarah Trabucchi

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.

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Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover

Table of Contents

Praise for Sarah MacLean:

About the Author

By Sarah MacLean

COPYRIGHT

Dedication

Chase

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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For Carrie Ryan, Sabrina Darby & Sophie Jordan,

who kept Chase’s secrets from the start.

For Baxter,

who keeps all my secrets.

And for Lady V,

who I hope grows up to have tremendous

secrets of her own.

Chase

March 1823

Leighton Castle

Basildon, Essex

“I love you. ”

Three strange, small words that held so much power.

Not that Lady Georgiana Pearson – daughter of one duke and sister to another, child of honor and duty and pristine presentation, and perfectly bred female of the ton – had ever heard them.

Aristocrats did not love.

And if they did, they most certainly did not do something so base as to admit it.

So it was a shock, frankly, that the words spilled from her lips with such ease and comfort and truth. But Georgiana had never in her sixteen years believed anything so well, and she had never been so quickly rid of the shackles of expectation that came with her name and her past and her family. In truth, she embraced it – the risk and reward – thrilled to feel at long last. To live. To be.