The Designs Of Lord Randolph Cavanaugh: #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with an uputdownable new historical romance. Stephanie Laurens

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Reasons for Marriage

       A Lady of Expectations

       An Unwilling Conquest

       A Comfortable Wife

      The Designs of Lord Randolph Cavanaugh

      Stephanie Laurens

       Copyright

      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

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      London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

      Copyright © Stephanie Laurens Proprietary Limited 2018

      Stephanie Laurens Proprietary Limited asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © April 2018 ISBN: 9781474082969

      INTERIOR ARTWORK

      IS LOCATED

      BETWEEN CHAPTER 3 AND CHAPTER 4

      and also can be accessed via the TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       About the Author

       Other Titles from Stephanie Laurens

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Artwork Note

       Introduction

       PROLOGUE

       CHAPTER 1

       CHAPTER 2

       CHAPTER 3

       Interior Artwork

       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

       EPILOGUE

       About the Publisher

      The Designs of Lord Randolph Cavanaugh

      She’d been kissed before, but never like this—with such direct and compelling mastery that she and all her senses had surged in response. Her lips parted beneath the temptation of his; she quelled a delicious shiver as his tongue teased the slick softness, then slid between and settled to explore.

      To engage and expand her senses.

      Her wits had gone wandering; to where, she didn’t care.

      Instinctively, she came up on her toes the better to participate in the enthralling exchange; she leaned into him, her hands coming to rest, palms flat, on his chest.

      Even through the fabric of his coat and shirt, she felt the alluring heat of him. Beneath her hands, she sensed the reality of a flesh-and-blood man.

      Desire bloomed. She’d never felt it before, yet she knew it for what it was and embraced it.

       PROLOGUE

      June 1843

      London

      “I’m prepared to pay off all your debts provided that you complete a particular task for me.”

      The pale-faced, neatly dressed gentleman elegantly seated in one of the Antium Club’s