by Viola Carr
“I can’t promise I won’t do that.”
“Fine. Then this conversation isn’t ended. And it won’t be until you forgive yourself, Remy Lafayette.”
Remy’s eyes shimmered. “I really am the luckiest man alive. Aren’t you even the tiniest bit afraid of me?”
Behind him, Lizzie snorted. “After what we’ve been through? Not a chance. Now bloody well kiss him until my eyes boggle, or I’ll throttle you.”
Laughing, Eliza reached up to brush her thumb across his lashes. “Lizzie says I ought to kiss you now.”
“Oh.” His smile flashed, glorious. “Well, forgive me, madam, but that’s impossible. We’re not engaged.”
She slipped the ring from her pocket. The stone sparkled in the sun. Ridiculously blue, like his eyes. “Yes,” she whispered, “we are.”
He took the ring, and slipped it onto her finger. And she kissed him until she couldn’t breathe.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Like every author, I couldn’t be one without my fabulous team of enablers: Kelly, Caroline, and the gang at Harper Voyager; Marlene, agent extraordinaire; and Sean, bringer of chocolate and kisses. Oh, and cheers to the staff at the Alnwick coffee shop where I spent many hours writing this book, who called me “Sheila” and wondered if they were in it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
VIOLA CARR was born in a strange and distant land, but wandered into darkest London one foggy October evening and never found her way out. She now devours countless history books and dictates fantastical novels by gaslight, accompanied by classical music and the snores of her slumbering cat. She is the author of The Diabolical Miss Hyde.
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CREDITS
Cover design by Richard L. Aquan
Cover illustration © by Gene Mollica
COPYRIGHT
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE DEVIOUS DR. JEKYLL. Copyright © 2015 by Viola Carr. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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