The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. To catch a blackmailer she pretends to be the mistress of Marcus the Earl of Masters a notorious man who has a list of rules a mile wide and whom she believes to be dead.

Once again this is a romance and an adventure, set in the Regency period and written with verve and style.She is also the author of Slightly Shady and Don't Look Back , the first two novels featuring Lavinia Lake and Tobias March.

Pasakojime yra ir pavojų, šantažo, atsakymų paieškų, nesusipratimų, skausmingos praeities, ir, aišku, meilės. To be fair, I don't know what other ending would have been possible, since revealing that she was in fact a single woman pretending to be a mistress would have ruined her reputation, so I guess Ms. It would be dreadful if that sailed by without comment, or, worse, that an awful editor decided to change the name TO Iphiginia. H does occasionally ponder his many mistresses over the years-the type of woman he usually finds, but not enough to get on my nerves. But alas, with the passing of the decades, I am no longer entranced by fashion porn, and romance characters strike me as distractingly stupid.That’s how I felt while reading Amanda Quick’s Mistress, a hilarious clever mix of romance and intrigue. She kind of sounds like the narrator at the beginning of Disney's Cinderella (not the live-action remake) and I believe that helped draw me in. How are you supposed to be a lady in to her spinster years, traveled, and smart and You MISTAKE a man's ejaculation with a near death experience caused by you and your inability to "take all of him". The fact he also thinks she is the blackmailer - yes, one of his friends is also being blackmailed - helps in his decision to do so. Sebastian is loaded and the way Pam puckers her delicately Botoxed lips and exhales as she squeezes her legs together is more than any man deprived of sex for weeks could stand.

Rumors hint that the Earl has disappeared at the blackmailer's hands, and by posing as his unknown mistress, Iphiginia is convinced she can ferret out the villain. The hero was a sexy and scholarly alpha, but he stood no chance when it came to the heroine who had him enraptured from the very beginning. I started flagging about a third of the way through, but at the end I read really fast and this seemed to help. I must say "Mistress" is the first historical romance novel i have ever read by Amanda Quick (aka Jayne ann Krentz) who is one of my top favourite authors. One of the most compelling parts of this story (for me) takes place during a conversation between Marcus and his brother Bennet.Moreover, Marcus's brother Bennet has got to be one of the most obnoxious characters in the history of romance. Iphiginia is a exuberant,independent and intellectual woman,and to Marcus Valerius Cloud,Earl of Masters,she was like a shooting star who lit up the dark sky in his world. They have a lot in common for they are almost modern females in a time that being a woman was not a walk in the park at all. Soon the two join forces to unmask the villain and perhaps turn their charade into something more real. When Marcus finds out what is really going on, he agrees to keep up the farce and even help Iphiginia out.

It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Marcus had invented a clockwork man, an automaton which could function but could never feel emotions, whether joy or sorrow.

But when Marcus agrees to play along with her charade, she doesn't know that the determined earl has plans of his to tease and tempt her, until the beautiful deceiver becomes more than his mistress in name only. Overnight, Iphiginia is transformed into a vision with a host of eager admirers, including one she does not expect -- the Earl of Masters himself, who strides into a shimmering ballroom one evening to cooly reclaim his "mistress. She has done such a good job convincing the ton, and Marcus does not contradict her, so everyone believes that there is a physical relationship between Marcus and Iphiginia. Bennet is absolutely appaled that his brother would countenance a marriage with a woman who, according to the standards of the day, is a totally unworthy person.