The Spymaster's Lady
"I have plans."
He jerked the last button loose and pulled his shirt over his head and dropped it on the floor, then stripped his trousers off. She started to sit up but he set his hand on her shoulder to keep her as she was. He liked her this way ... naked, laid out on her belly. She was exquisitely lovely and she couldn't attack.
"Have I mentioned you're the most beautiful woman in the world?"
"From one cause and another we have missed saying such things to each other."
Those sleek cat muscles of hers told him how nervous she was. Willing, but nervous. He could use that nervousness. He could make it explode inside her like foam in a keg. He'd send her wild tonight. Beyond thought. Beyond restraint. "I like the curve here ..." He ran his hand down the long taut muscles that paralleled her spine. "It's like the countryside back home. Long and rolling."
"I am like countryside?"
"Somerset countryside." He stroked her buttocks. "With little hills."
"But truly, men have strange minds."
He stroked her again. "Did your mother tell you that?"
"I find that my mother did not say anything to the point. She did not wish me to be a courtesan, you understand, and therefore did not instruct me in those arts." She glanced at him from the corner of her eye. "Except a few trifles. I believe they are not known to respectable English girls, who are very uneducated. I will show you, if you like."
A pang of pure lust shot through him. His lady was not at all innocent in some ways. He foresaw many long, interesting nights while they worked out exactly who would be in charge in this bed.
Booklist:
British spymaster Robert Grey came to France to find Annique Villiers,
the notorious “Fox Cub,” only to end up sharing the same prison cell as
the beautiful spy. In order to escape, the two enter into a reluctant
partnership that ends the minute they’re free. Believing that Annique
has valuable information about the “Albion plans”—Napoléon’s scheme to
invade England—Robert’s only goal is to get her back to London, but the
surprisingly resourceful Annique is determined to thwart Robert at
every turn. In her exceptional debut romance, Bourne deftly distills
danger, deception, and desire into a seamlessly constructed story that
will captivate readers with its irresistible combination of superbly
nuanced characters and a high-adrenaline plot. --John Charles
Romantic Times
Hot Pick
Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has outwitted, outmaneuvered and outfoxed every man she's ever met, until British spymaster Robert Grey steps into a French prison. Grey's mission is to capture the Cub and uncover exactly what she knows and who she works for.
As enemies, they hate one another; as fellow prisoners they must band together to escape. Their truce is
filled with suspicion, but there's also a spark of something more -- a
forbidden passion that threatens their missions. As they flee through
the
countryside, pursued by enemies left and right, their tense alliance hangs
on a thread. Surrounded by deception, piled-on secrets and heaped-on lies
that go back decades, Grey and Annique become a force to be reckoned
with in a world gone mad. (Berkley Sensation, Jan., 373 pp., $7.99)
Reviewed By: Kathe Robin
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