DARING DUCHESSES
They’ll scandalise the Ton
Back in society after becoming widows,
three duchesses dare to contemplate the
wicked delights of taking a lover …
Except they haven’t bargained on the
gentlemen who rise to the challenge being
quite so gloriously devilish!
SOME LIKE IT WICKED
December 2012
SOME LIKE TO SHOCK
January 2013
Also read Sophia’s story
SOME LIKE IT SCANDALOUS
November 2012 Historical Undone!
AUTHOR NOTE
Welcome to the second story in my world of the Daring Duchesses. The introduction to these two books appeared in the Historical Undone! eBook, SOME LIKE IT SCANDALOUS, which told Dante and Sophia’s story.
This book is about Pandora and Rupert.
The stories of these three duchesses, and the men with whom they fall in love, have been especially fun to write. The women are all so different, and their background stories equally so, yet their friendship, although newly formed, is one that they all know will endure. Just as they know the love each one finds with the gentleman of their dreams will last a lifetime.
Enjoy!
About the Author
CAROLE MORTIMER was born in England, the youngest of three children. She began writing in 1978, and has now written over one hundred and fifty books for Harlequin Mills & Boon®. Carole has six sons: Matthew, Joshua, Timothy, Michael, David and Peter. She says, ‘I’m happily married to Peter senior; we’re best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.’
Previous novels by the same author:
In Mills & Boon® Historical Romance:
THE DUKE’S CINDERELLA BRIDE*
THE RAKE’S INDECENT PROPOSAL*
THE ROGUE’S DISGRACED LADY*
LADY ARABELLA’S SCANDALOUS MARRIAGE*
THE LADY GAMBLES**
THE LADY FORFEITS**
THE LADY CONFESSES**
*The Notorious St Claires
**The Copeland Sisters
You’ve read about The Notorious St Claires in Regency times. Now you can read about the new generation in Mills & Boon® Modern™ Romance:
The Scandalous St Claires:
Three arrogant aristocrats—ready to be tamed!
JORDAN ST CLAIRE: DARK AND DANGEROUS
THE RELUCTANT DUKE
TAMING THE LAST ST CLAIRE
Carole Mortimer has written a further 150 novels for Modern™ Romance, and in Mills & Boon® Historical Undone! eBooks:
AT THE DUKE’S SERVICE
CONVENIENT WIFE, PLEASURED LADY
SOME LIKE IT SCANDALOUS†
† Daring Duchesses
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Some Like It
Wicked
Carole Mortimer
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To Peter, With All My Love
Chapter One
May 1817—Highbury House, London
‘Do smile, Pandora; I am sure that neither Devil nor Lucifer intends to gobble you up! At least … it is to be hoped, not in any way you might find unpleasant.’
Pandora, widowed Duchess of Wyndwood, did not join in her friend’s huskily suggestive laughter as they approached the two gentlemen Genevieve referred to so playfully. Instead she felt her heart begin to pound even more rapidly in her chest, her breasts quickly rising and falling as she took rapid, shallow breaths in an effort to calm her feelings of alarm, and the palms of her hands dampened inside the lace of her gloves.
She did not know either gentleman personally, of course. Both men were in their early thirties whereas she was but four and twenty, and she had never been a part of the risqué crowd which surrounded them whenever they deigned to show themselves in society. Nevertheless, she had recognised them on sight as being Lord Rupert Stirling, previously Marquis of Devlin and now Duke of Stratton, and his good friend, Lord Benedict Lucas, two gentlemen who had, this past dozen years or so, become known more familiarly amongst the ton as Devil and Lucifer. So named for their outrageous exploits, both in and out of ladies’ bedchambers.
The same two gentlemen Genevieve had moments ago suggested might be considered as likely candidates as lovers now that their year of mourning for their husbands was over …
‘Pandora?’
She