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  When the baptism had concluded, Theo’s godparents clustered around the baby, vying with one another to coax a smile or chuckle out of him.

  Watching their antics from a little distance, Genia cast Blade a smile that glowed with joyful pride, yet still held a glint of delightful mischief. “I wonder what your old friend Ford would say if he could see you now?”

  Blade grinned back at her, wondering if he dared steal a kiss in church. “He would probably say I have reaped a fine harvest from the last of my wild oats. And he would be right.”

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  In the process of tracing her Canadian family to their origins in eighteenth-century Britain, Deborah Hale learned a great deal about the period and uncovered plenty of true-life inspiration for her historical romance novels! Deborah lives with her very own hero and their four fast-growing children in Nova Scotia—a province steeped in history and romance!

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  ISBN: 978-1-4268-8013-1

  Seduced: The Scandalous Virgin

  Copyright © 2011 by Deborah M. Hale

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