Sin With a Scoundrel: The Husband Hunters Club

by Sara Bennett

  Tina nodded to her maid. One more glance below . . . ah, there they were, her friends from Miss Debenham’s. They were gathered together, chattering away, with so much to catch up on. Suddenly, she wanted to be with them, to learn how their own husband-hunting exploits had gone, and to tell them about her own.

  Just then there was a tap on her door. Behind her, the maid opened it, there was a murmur, and then it closed once more.

  “I was beginning to wonder if you’d changed your mind,” said a familiar, deep voice.

  Tina turned and found her beloved standing in the room behind her, contemplating her in her finery.

  “You look beautiful,” he added, “just as I knew you would.”

  “I was watching the guests from the window,” she admitted. “You were right, there are a great many of them.”

  He came and took her hands, his gray eyes warm and smiling beneath his slashing dark brows, his hair a little tussled, but that was fine by Tina, that was how she liked him.

  “We could have been married privately,” he reminded her. “I did suggest it.”

  “I know, but it wouldn’t have been the same, would it? I want everyone to be there, to share in our happiness.”

  He moved closer and bent his head to kiss her lips, a gentle kiss but with the promise of passion. Later. When it was all over.

  “Come on, Tina,” he said, drawing her toward the door. “If we wait any longer there’ll be talk that the expert on making matches can’t make his own.”

  She laughed and squeezed his hand. “I will have to talk to you about that one day. Your education when it comes to women is rather lacking.”

  “Minx,” he said lovingly.

  And Tina and Richard went down to the garden, where their friends and families were waiting, to make new promises. This time to each other.

  About the Author

  SARA BENNETT has always had an interest in history, and to survive a series of mind-numbing jobs, she turned to writing historical romance. She lives in an old house with her husband and two children in the state of Victoria, Australia, where she tries to keep the house and garden tidy, but rarely succeeds— she’d rather be writing or reading.

  You can write to her at www.sara-bennett.com (don’t forget the hyphen!) or Publicity Department, Avon Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299.

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  By Sara Bennett

  Sin With a Scoundrel

  To Pleasure a Duke

  A Most Sinful Proposal

  Led Astray by a Rake

  Her Secret Lover

  A Seduction in Scarlet

  Mistress of Scandal

  Rules of Passion

  Lessons in Seduction

  Kissing the Bride

  Beloved Highlander

  Once He Loves

  The Rose and the Shield

  The Lily and the Sword

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  SIN WITH A SCOUNDREL. Copyright © 2012 by Sara Bennett. 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, downloaded, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062198006

  Print Edition ISBN: 9780061339196

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