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    A Husband for Mary: Naughty and Nice, #6
    A Husband for Mary: Naughty and Nice, #6
    A Husband for Mary: Naughty and Nice, #6
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    A Husband for Mary: Naughty and Nice, #6

    By Heather Boyd

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    When Mary Vine kissed a handsome stranger at the Fenwick Masquerade, she never imagined the extraordinary attraction could be for the most disgraceful rake in London. A man she knew far too well…

     

     

    A Naughty and Nice standalone regency romance short story.

     

    Naughty and Nice series:
    1. One Wicked Night
    2. In the Widow's Bed
    3. Love Me Tender
    4. Love Me True
    5. Wicked Mourning
    6. A Husband for Mary
    7. A Ramshackle Start
    8. Let it Snow
    9. Coming Together
    10. Unforgettable

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeather Boyd
    Release dateMar 12, 2019
    ISBN9781925239447
    A Husband for Mary: Naughty and Nice, #6
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    Heather Boyd

    USA Today Bestselling Author Heather Boyd believes every character she creates deserves their own happily-ever-after—no matter how much trouble she puts them through. With that goal in mind, she writes steamy romances that skirt the boundaries of propriety to keep readers enthralled until the wee hours of the morning. Heather has published over fifty regency romance novels and shorter works full of daring seductions and distinguished rogues. She lives north of Sydney, Australia, with her trio of rogues and a four-legged overlord.  Find out more at: www.Heather-Boyd.com

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      A Husband for Mary - Heather Boyd

      A Husband for Mary

      A HUSBAND FOR MARY

      NAUGHTY AND NICE

      BOOK SIX

      HEATHER BOYD

      WWW.HEATHER-BOYD.COM

      When Mary Vine kissed a handsome stranger at the Fenwick Masquerade, she never imagined the extraordinary attraction could be for the most disgraceful rake in London. A man she knew far too well…

      CONTENTS

      Copyright

      Naughty and Nice

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      A Ramshackle Start

      NEW SERIES: SCANDALOUS BRIDES

      Need more Steamy Regency Romance?

      About Heather

      Copyright © 2017 by Heather Boyd

      ISBN: 978-1-925239447

      Published March 2019

      Edited by Kelli Collins

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced nor used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for use of brief quotations in a book review.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return it and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used facetiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      NAUGHTY AND NICE

      Other Books in the Series

      One Wicked Night

      In the Widow’s Bed

      Love Me Tender

      Love Me True

      Wicked Mourning

      A Husband for Mary

      A Ramshackle Start

      Let it Snow

      Coming Together

      Unforgettable

      CHAPTER 1

      W hy can’t I go with you? Mary Vine stomped her foot and instantly regretted the petulant and childish gesture she hadn’t made in years. However, her brother Douglas was beyond frustrating this season. She only ever lost her sense of decorum around him.

      Because you are still a child, Douglas replied in the same condescending tone he’d adopted when he’d reached his majority last year. The Fenwick Masquerade is no place for a properly bred young woman.

      But you go every year, and you are only a year older than me. And Worth attends, and he’s younger than I am. She glanced in Mr. Ellis Worth’s direction but didn’t expect support from that quarter. Her brother’s friend sat up suddenly, looking somewhat guilty at his inclusion in the argument. Worth was a mere week her junior and yet he could do anything he liked without his age ever being brought up in conversation.

      It was not fair, and Mary hated being thwarted. She was desperately looking for a husband who would take her away from this suffocating life under her brother’s stern control. The Fenwick Masquerade might be Mary’s last chance to meet someone new before she was relegated to being utterly on the shelf.

      Her brother sorted through the day’s mail. "Worth is related to a duke."

      Mary dismissed that argument with the wave of her hand. Worth was hardly likely to inherit that exalted position. He was very far down the line of succession and had infrequent contact with the duke. That hardly signifies. Why can’t you take me and be my chaperone for an hour?

      We have other plans for the night.

      She glanced at Ellis Worth, saw a flush of color fill his cheeks and concluded they were probably scandalous plans indeed. He squirmed under her scrutiny and looked away.

      Mary was not friends with Ellis Worth. He had a terrible reputation. He was considered a rake—by Mary and many others. She tolerated him because he was unfailingly polite to her mama and had never overstepped with her. He would not help her. Only her brother could do that. She was trapped at home for yet another night unless he could be persuaded to see reason. Please, she begged.

      Gentlemen of means do as they like, and attending Fenwick’s amusements is most certainly not the place for you, Douglas remarked, smiling at an invitation in his post. A rakish reputation only ever adds to a gentleman’s esteem, but where you are concerned, attendance would make you utterly unmarriageable. Isn’t that right, Worth?

      She glanced to the side again, but Worth wisely kept his mouth shut and paid strict attention to the tip of his left boot.

      Quite right, Douglas continued on, ignoring the fact he’d not been answered by his friend. "A lady should not attend such a party—or am I to believe that I have wasted considerable funds to give you this third season to find a spouse?"

      He had her there. Mary did want, no long, for a husband. She’d been searching three years, smiling at toads, suffering sweaty hands and fetid breath, inhaling the stench of too much cologne, all in the hope of finding the one man she could be herself around.

      She was twenty years old and had not found the right gentleman yet. Anxiety over her spinster state had already begun to make her shrewish. Time was running out, judging by the lack of admirers adorning their drawing room today. Douglas was not keen to fund a fourth season, and she was worried. She had such high hopes the masquerade would be the answer to all her problems.

      And Mary really wanted to meet a gentleman with whom she might share all sorts of adventures.

      Even the wicked ones proper ladies

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