The Viscount's Frozen Heart. Elizabeth Beacon

      

       A YEAR OF SCANDAL

       A gentleman for every season

      At the mercy of a ghostly matchmaker, four gentlemen must perform a shocking task. But claiming their inheritance might just lead them to the women who will steal their hearts!

      Don’t miss this wonderful new quartet by Mills & Boon^® Historical Romance author

       Elizabeth Beacon!

      First out:

      THE VISCOUNT’S FROZEN HEART

      Available August 2014

       AUTHOR NOTE

      Welcome to THE VISCOUNT’S FROZEN HEART, the first book in my new quartet of novels A Year of Scandal. Each book is set during a different season of the year. THE VISCOUNT’S FROZEN HEART starts the series off in January, with a new beginning for dark and brooding Luke and the most unlikely housekeeper he has ever met.

      Each book should stand alone, but I would love you to meet the rest of my heroes and heroines as A Year of Scandal unfolds. Thank you for being my tolerant, loyal readers. This book is dedicated to all of you. I really hope you enjoy it.

       The Viscount’s Frozen Heart

      Elizabeth Beacon

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      ELIZABETH BEACON lives in the beautiful English West Country, and is finally putting her insatiable curiosity about the past to good use. Over the years Elizabeth has worked in her family’s horticultural business, become a mature student, qualified as an English teacher, worked as a secretary and, briefly, tried to be a civil servant. She is now happily ensconced behind her computer, when not trying to exhaust her bouncy rescue dog with as many walks as the Inexhaustible Lurcher can finagle. Elizabeth can’t bring herself to call researching the wonderfully diverse, scandalous Regency period and creating charismatic heroes and feisty heroines work, and she is waiting for someone to find out how much fun she is having and tell her to stop it.

       Previous novels by the same author:

      AN INNOCENT COURTESAN

      HOUSEMAID HEIRESS

      A LESS THAN PERFECT LADY

      CAPTAIN LANGTHORNE’S PROPOSAL

      REBELLIOUS RAKE, INNOCENT GOVERNESS

      THE RAKE OF HOLLOWHURST CASTLE

      ONE FINAL SEASON

       (part of Courtship & Candlelight) A MOST UNLADYLIKE ADVENTURE GOVERNESS UNDER THE MISTLETOE (part of Candlelit Christmas Kisses) THE DUCHESS HUNT THE SCARRED EARL THE BLACK SHEEP’S RETURN

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      Contents

       Cover

       Introduction

      Author Note

       Title Page

       About the Author

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

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Copyright

       Chapter One

      Luke Winterley, Viscount Farenze, turned to help his daughter down from the carriage and