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What If…?

By: Katharine Ashe
July 20, 2010

What would you do if—like Lady Valerie Monroe, the heroine of my debut romance, Swept Away By A Kiss—you were a scandalous beauty on her way home from exile in Boston, determined to reform your wicked ways, and you met the man of your dreams?

What would you do if that man, breathtakingly handsome and intoxicatingly masculine, had lion’s eyes that gazed at you like a predator gazing upon his prey?

What would you do if his enigmatic smile turned your knees to jelly and your resolution to honey? If his strong hands and sculpted mouth looked like they had been created to sin? If he touched you and every idea of reform simply fled?

What if he seems to be engaged in some nefarious business aboard ship?

What if he is a Frenchman, your kingdom’s sworn enemy in the midst of war?

What if he knows a little too well how to free a woman from ropes that bind her to a bed?

What if you didn’t care about any of that as long as he kept touching you?

What if—for a reason more damning than all of those combined—he is entirely, devastatingly, and unquestionably forbidden?

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Lord Steven Ashford never regretted his priestly disguise… until now. Trapped in a cabin aboard a pirate ship with the beguiling Lady Valerie, and bent upon defeating a dangerous enemy by any means possible, Steven cannot let down his guard. But Valerie is temptation incarnate, and both of their resistances are crumbling…

A secret identity can be so inconvenient at times, and forbidden love can be so very alluring.

I adore stories about secret identities and forbidden love! What is your favorite secret-identity or forbidden-love story from books and films? Have you ever lived one yourself?

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