Project Duchess. Sabrina Jeffries

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      A HEADY SENSATION

      Lifting her gaze to his face, she colored as she saw that he was watching her.

      “See something you like?” he asked in a low rumble.

      And as usual when she was taken off guard, she blurted out the first thing that came to her mind. “Why? Do you?”

      She’d intended it to come out as cold and sarcastic, but instead it sounded like a throaty invitation, even to her ears.

      And she knew he’d heard it when his eyes darkened, then dropped to fix on her lips. “Yes. Definitely yes.”

      Devil take it, she should never have said such a thing. What must he think of her? What would he—

      Her thoughts shattered as he leaned forward and pressed his lips to hers.

      Lord save her, he was kissing her. The Duke of blasted Greycourt himself was kissing her!

      Oh, heavens, the feel of his mouth covering hers, tasting and testing as if to determine how soft were her lips, was a heady sensation unlike any other. . . .

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      Project Duchess

      SABRINA JEFFRIES

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      Table of Contents

      A HEADY SENSATION Also by Title Page Copyright Page Dedication London Society Times - DOWAGER DUCHESS LOSES THIRD HUSBAND 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 Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Epilogue Teaser chapter

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      To Joyce Ratley,

      for your many, many fine years of teaching

      and caring for our autistic kids and adults.

      We’ll miss your wisdom and your wonderful ways.

      I know you will go on to do even more great things.

      And to my agent,

      Pam Ahearn of The Ahearn Agency,

      who has supported me for thirty-one years of

      good times and bad.