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He owns three shipping companies, a diamond mine, and his own castle.He knows Portuguese, Hindu, Mandarin and Morse code.His assets net thirteen million.Lord Preston wants the one thing money can't buy…Andrew Tilmore, Lord Preston, the financial prodigy dubbed “The King of Threadneedle Street” wants the one prize out of reach: his childhood sweetheart. The papers can waste a sea of ink scandalizing over his lavender-eyed Alysia; so what if she is the daughter of his father’s mistress?Alysia Villier learned the craft of the courtesan from her infamous mother—by osmosis apparently. A gifted artist who almost won the Prix de Rome, Alysia is not interested in following in her mother’s footsteps, since Andrew ruined her for any other man. But with her legal guardian—Andrew’s father—in control of her inheritance, she has little choice in the matter.Keeping Alysia out of trouble and away from eager suitors becomes a cross-continental quest for Andrew. Not his old-fashioned family, the disapproval of the ton, nor even Alysia’s dedication to duty and propriety will stop him. Playing newspapers and investors like pawns, tumbling world markets, inciting riots…has he gone too far?Pages of The King of Threadneedle Street :