A Game of Secrets

 A Game of Secrets

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Kate Charteris never expected to become a damsel in distress, yet she becomes just that when she must flee her cousin’s unwanted attentions.

While she might be alone in Regency England, her parents deceased and family friends still with Wellington’s army in Portugal and Spain, she is no damsel who faints at the first sight of a dragon-like trouble.

On the hunt for the lair of smugglers and spies for Napoleon, Tony Farraday never expected to fall hard for a damsel not quite in distress.  He collides with Kate on a city street and feels instant attraction.  Yet Kate must catch the mail coach before it leaves, and Tony still needs orders from the spycatcher Giles Hargreaves.

Neither expects to meet again at a run-down inn on the English coast.  On a crumbling cliffside, they vow to keep each other’s secrets and pretend to be strangers.  

Yet that initial spark of attraction catches flame strongly and obviously, jeopardizing their pretense.

When they realize they are in the smugglers’ very lair, Tony must warn his friend Hargreaves.

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The French spy arrives, demanding immediate passage across the Channel to take vital information to Napoleon.  Kate befriends the spy, but she is playing a dangerous game.

Tony hopes to delay the spy long enough for Hargreaves to arrest her and the smugglers—only to be caught in a trap.

When Kate’s cousin arrives, can she evade him long enough to help Tony escape?  Or have they both lost this Game of Secrets?

A sweet Regency historical romance.  A Game of Secrets is a complete novel without a cliff-hanger, but the danger continues in A Game of Spies.

First book in the Hearts in Hazard series.

Tony's friend Giles Hargreaves recurs in the second book of the series, A Game of Spies.

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