Release Date 21/02/2014
The Captain and The Countess
Chapter One
London
Edward, the
Right Honourable Captain Howard, dressed in blue and white, which some of the
officers in Queen Anne’s navy favoured, strode into Mrs Radcliffe’s
spacious house near St James Park.
Perkins,
his godmother’s butler, took his hat and cloak. “Madam wants you to join her
immediately.”
Instead of
going upstairs to the rooms his godmother had provided for him during his spell
on half pay—the result of a dispute with a senior officer—Edward entered the
salon. He sighed. When would his sixty-one year old godmother accept that at
the age of twenty-two he was not yet ready to wed?
He made his
way across the elegant, many windowed room through a crowd of expensively
garbed callers.
When Frances
Radcliffe noticed him, she turned to the pretty young lady
seated beside her. “Mistress Martyn, allow me to introduce you to my godson,
Captain Howard.”
Blushes
stained Mistress Martyn’s cheeks as she stood to make her curtsey.
Edward bowed, indifferent to
yet another of his grandmother’s protégées. Conversation ceased. All eyes focussed
on the threshold.
“Lady
Sinclair,” someone murmured.
Edward
turned. He gazed without blinking at the acclaimed beauty, whose sobriquet was 'The
Fatal Widow’.
The
countess remained in the doorway, her cool blue eyes speculative.
Edward
whistled low. Could her shocking reputation be no more than tittle-tattle? His
artist’s eyes observed her. Rumour did not lie about her Saxon beauty.
Publisher. MuseItUp Publishing
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