EVA LEIGH is the pen name of a RITA® Award-nominated romance author who writes novels chock-full of smart women and sexy men. She enjoys baking, tweeting about boots, and listening to music from the ’80s. Eva and her husband live in central California.
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The Scandalous Ladies of London series
FROM DUKE TILL DAWN
Counting on a Countess
Eva Leigh
ISBN: 978-0-008-27263-0
COUNTING ON A COUNTESS
© 2018 Eva Leigh
Published in Great Britain 2018
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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To Zack
Contents
London, England
1817
Though he had been the Earl of Blakemere for nearly six months, Christopher Ellingsworth rarely entertained sober or virtuous guests in his bachelor lodgings. Today was