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Captives of the Night
Captives of the Night | Loretta Chase
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Leila Beaumont is a gorgeous and talented portrait painter trapped in a loveless marriage with her profligate husband, Francis. Though long ago, Francis very much played the hero, rescuing and wedding the orphaned 17-year-old Leila - Francis' more recent hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, drugging and womanizing has not only earned him quite a few enemies in London, but lost him the love of his wife.When Francis turns up dead in the Beaumont townhouse, right after a loud and vitriolic argument with his wife, Leila is seen as the primary suspect, innocent though she is. Because of Francis' many enemies and victims, government officials instigate a quiet investigation, many of whom fear fallout from Francis' numerous blackmail and extortion schemes.The man they call on - the sexy blue-eyed Comte d'Esmond - is a man of many talents who has spent the past ten years as one of the government's most trusted covert operatives; a man who also has a dark and treacherous past.Neither Leila, nor Esmond is especially happy to be working together - their relationship is one of intense attraction accompanied by intense resistance. Leila had long ago given up on the idea of love and saw her husband as a means of propriety in London, but now she finds the dangerous Esmond's seductive charm nearly irresistible.But work together they must: Esmond, with a carefully hidden identity that would shock Leila to the core and Leila with her own secrets to keep...It's danger that unites them and it's danger that chains their hearts: Esmond's virility and bold touch enflame Leila's blood...and draw her into the most irresistible intrigue of all...truly passionate love.
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Captives of the Night | Loretta Chase

"a cuckold", she echoed bitterly. " What does one call what you've made me? What name does one give the wife? Or maybe the title 'wife' is sufficient joke in the circumstances."
Zinger after unexpected zinger in this book!

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Captives of the Night | Loretta Chase

"Whore" is a man's word, Fiona said. Reserved for women. A man is a rake, a libertine. How dashing it sounds. But a woman who behaves the same way is a whore,a tart, a trollop-gad, the list is endless.I counted up twice.Do you know, English contains about ten times as many disagreeable terms for a pleasure-loving woman as it does for her male counterpart?It makes one think.

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