Raven's Vow. Gayle Wilson

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Excerpt

       Dear Reader

       Title Page

       Gayle Wilson

       Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Epilogue

       Copyright

      “It’s quite impossible,” Catherine said softly. “My father would never allow such a match.”

      “Then you have no objection to my approaching him?” Raven asked calmly.

      

      “You intend to approach my father?” she repeated unbelievingly, incredulous that he didn’t seem to understand the width of the gap that lay between them.

      

      “Yes.”

      

      “With that proposition?”

      

      “Not couched in precisely those terms,” he said, amusement in his voice. “Simply as an offer for your hand.”

      

      “He’ll have you thrown out,” she warned.

      

      “Will he?” he asked, sounding interested. “I wonder how.”

      

      “By the servants,” she responded with deliberate bluntness, finally angered at his continual mockery of the reality of the world she lived in. Coal merchants, however wealthy, didnot ask for the hand of the Duke of Montfort’s daughter.

      “I should like to see them try,” Raven suggested softly, and found that he really would. He’ddamn well like to see them try…!

      Dear Reader,

      

      When an American businessman and a British heiress agree to a marriage of convenience, both are in danger inRaven’s Vow, a dark new Regency novel from former March Madness/Romance Writers of America RITA Award nominee Gayle Wilson, the author of The Heart’s Desire. Don’t miss this exciting new tale from this talented author.

      Elizabeth Mayne, another March Madness/RITA Award nominee author, is also out this month.Lord of the Isle is a classic Elizabethan tale featuring an Irish nobleman who unwittingly falls in love with a rebel from an outlawed family. Ana Seymour’sLucky Bride is a sequel toGabriel’s Lady. Set in Wyoming Territory, it’s a delightful story of a ranch hand who joins forces with his beautiful boss to save her land from a dangerous con man.

      Our fourth title for the month,The Return of Chase Cordell, is a new Western from Linda Castle, who is fast becoming one of our most popular authors. It’s a poignant love story about a war hero with amnesia who rediscovers a forgotten passion for his young bride.

      Whatever your taste in reading, we hope you’ll enjoy all four of these terrific stories. Please keep an eye out for them wherever Harlequin Historicals are sold.

      

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      Tracy Farrell

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      Raven’s Vow

      Gayle Wilson

      

      

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       GAYLE WILSON

      teaches English and history to gifted high school students. Her love of both subjects naturally resulted in a desire to write historical fiction. After several years as the wife of a military pilot, she returned with her husband to live in Alabama, where they had both grown up.

      

      You can contact her at: P.O. Box 342, Birmingham, AL 35201-0342.

      For my beloved sister Joy

       Prologue

       London, 1826

      “What you need, Mr. Raven, is a wife.”

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