Moonlight Masquerade
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The man in question—Rees Phillips—was not the finest, handsomest, noblest gentleman. He was the lowest, most despicable, shabbiest cad she’d ever known! He had no right to be happy when he had made her so miserable!
“Your frown could crack marble.”
Jessamine jumped at the lazy drawl. Turning, she glared to see if the gentleman standing beside her had indeed been rude enough to address her.
Glaring in this case entailed craning her neck upward if she didn’t want to waste the effort on a bleached white shirt front and pristine cravat.
“Are you addressing me, sir?”
Amused brown eyes stared down into hers. They might have been attractive if the pale forehead hadn’t been topped by a mop of red hair. The gentleman’s lips quirked upward. “You recognized the description?”
Jessamine drew herself up to her full height. How dare he mock her suffering!
“Excuse me, sir, we have not been introduced.” With that setdown, she turned away, her chin in the air, and took Megan by the arm.
Before she could move, he stepped before her and bowed. “I beg your pardon.” Then he turned and wandered off.
She fumed, watching him move with ease across the crowded drawing room.
Ruth Axtell has loved the Regency period of England ever since discovering Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer in high school. She knew she wanted to be a writer even earlier. The two loves were joined with the publication of her first book, Winter Is Past, a Regency, in 2003.
Since then she has published several Regencies, as well as Victorian England and late nineteenth-century coastal Maine settings.
With Moonlight Masquerade, her fourteenth novel, Ruth returns to Regency England.
Besides writing, Ruth always yearned to live in other countries. From three childhood summers spent in Venezuela, a junior year in Paris, an au pair stint in the Canary Islands, and a few years in the Netherlands, Ruth has now happily settled on the downeast coast of Maine with her college-and high school–age children and two cats.
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