An Impossible Attraction. Brenda Joyce

      

      Praise for

      Brenda Joyce

      “Joyce’s latest is a piece of perfection as she

      meticulously crafts a tender and emotionally

      powerful love story. Passion and pain erupt from the

      pages and flow straight into your heart. You won’t

      forget this beautifully rendered love story of lost

      souls and redemption”

      —RT BOOKreviews on The Perfect Bride

      “Joyce’s characters carry considerable emotional

      weight, which keeps this hefty entry absorbing, and her

      fast-paced story keeps the pages turning.”

      —Publishers Weekly on The Stolen Bride

      “An emotionally sweeping tale of heartache,

      redemption and rebirth, The Stolen Bride lives up to this reader’s high expectations for a Perfect 10 read.”

      —Romance Reviews Today

      “The latest from Joyce offers readers a passionate,

      swashbuckling voyage in her newest addition to the de

      Warenne dynasty series. Joyce brings her keen sense

      of humour and storytelling prowess to bear on

      her witty, fully formed characters.”

      —Publishers Weekly on A Lady at Last

      “The latest in the de Warenne series is a warm,

      wonderfully sensual feast about the joys and pains of

      falling in love. Joyce breathes life into extraordinary

      characters – from her sprightly Cinderella heroine and

      roguish hero to everyone in between – then sets them in

      the glittering Regency, where anything can happen.”

      —RT BOOKreviews on A Lady at Last

      The Masquerade “dances on slippered feet, belying its heft with spellbinding dips, spins and twists.

      Jane Austen aficionados will delve happily into heroine

      Elizabeth “Lizzie” Fitzgerald’s family…Joyce’s tale

      of the dangers and delights of passion fulfilled will

      enchant those who like their reads long and rich.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      “Joyce brilliantly delivers an intensely emotional and

      engrossing romance where love overcomes deceit,

      scandal and pride…An intelligent love story with

      smart, appealing and strong characters. Readers will savour this latest from a grand mistress of the genre.”

      —RT BOOKreviews on The Masquerade

      An Impossible

      Attraction

      By

      Brenda Joyce

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      Brenda Joyce is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and novellas. She wrote her first novella when she was sixteen years old and her first novel when she was twenty-five – and was published shortly thereafter. She has won many awards and her first novel, Innocent Fire, won the Best Western Romance Award. She has also won the highly coveted Best Historical Romance award for Splendor and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Deadly series, which is set in turn-of-the-century New York and features amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill. There are over eleven million copies of her novels in print and she is published in more than a dozen countries. A native New Yorker, she now lives in southern Arizona with her husband, son, dogs, cat and numerous Arabian and half-Arabian reining horses. For more information about Brenda and her forthcoming novels, please visit her website at www.brendajoyce.com.

       Previous novels by the same author:

      DEADLY ILLUSIONS

      DEADLY KISSES THE MASQUERADE

      A LADY AT LAST

      THE STOLEN BRIDE

      THE PERFECT BRIDE

      A DANGEROUS LOVE

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      Brenda Joyce is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and novellas. She wrote her first novella when she was sixteen years old and her first novel when she was twenty-five – and was published shortly thereafter. She has won many awards and her first novel, Innocent Fire, won the Best Western Romance Award. She has also won the highly coveted Best Historical Romance award for Splendor and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Deadly series, which is set in turn-of-the-century New York and features amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill. There are over eleven million copies of her novels in print and she is published in more than a dozen countries. A native New Yorker, she now lives in southern Arizona with her husband, son, dogs, cat and numerous Arabian and half-Arabian reining horses. For more information about Brenda and her forthcoming novels, please visit her website at www.brendajoyce.com.

       Previous novels by the same author:

      DEADLY ILLUSIONS

      DEADLY KISSES THE MASQUERADE

      A LADY AT LAST

      THE STOLEN BRIDE

      THE PERFECT BRIDE

      A DANGEROUS LOVE

      For Sue Ball, one of the most generous and caring

      spirits I have ever known. My heartfelt thanks for so

      many years of kindness, friendship and support to me and my family.

      Prologue

      THERE WAS SO MUCH LIGHT, and Alexandra hesitated, confused.

      “Alex…andra?” her mother whispered from the bed.

      Gold-and-burgundy wallpaper adorned the walls, and dark draperies were closed over the bedroom’s two windows. The bureau was a dark, rich mahogany, as was the bed, and the bedding was wine and gold. The room’s single armchair was a dark, intense red. Yet the light within almost blinded her. “I am here, Mother,” she whispered back.

      And then, because Elizabeth Bolton was dying and would not last another night, because she had wasted away from the cancer eating at her, because she was so