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ONE BETRAYAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH

Enchantingly lovely Laura Dalwood was little more than a girl when she was given in marriage to a man whose glittering wealth concealed a dark secret revealed to her only on her wedding night. Now, her husband's death had freed her from that odious union and Laura vowed never to make such a grievous error again.

But how could she reject the handsome and brilliant Mark Cheney, Earl of Dartmouth, when his proposal was one that no young woman of sense or sensibility could rightly decline? And what could she do when, as his bride, he carried her over the threshold, allowing her to discover just how much she could love a man and then, to her distress, just how much she could fear him...

When supermodel Patsy Clark found herself in big trouble with an unscrupulous investment syndicate, she turned to her best friend's kid brother for help.

Like Patsy, dark-haired, dynamic Michael Melville had come a long way since junior high. A brilliant accountant and former Justice Department gangbuster, he was just the man to protect her from the mob...and just the lover to make all her previous romances seem as unreal as her own commercials.

But when the excitement of trapping the country's most-wanted embezzlers was over, would he still want Patsy...or would she just be good old "Red" again, the girl next door?

Dear Reader:

I am afraid I am about to do something exceedingly shocking. My adventure began when I came to the Earl of Savile's castle for the reading of George Devane's will, of which the earl is the executor.

I had every intention of refusing George's blood money, but he foiled me by leaving it to my young son, Nicky. Because I am a young widow, this bequest has subjected me to a great deal of unpleasant gossip.

Now I find that I am in the power of the most exciting man I have ever met, a man whose very presence makes me weak, a man who could very well be my ruination.

Remember me in your prayers, as I shall need them.

(Mrs.) Gail Saunders