Practical Widow to Passionate Mistress

Practical Widow to Passionate Mistress
Louise Allen

Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesFrom servants’ quarters to master’s bedroom! Stranded in France, and desperate to reunite with her sisters, Meg finds passage to England with injured soldier Major Ross Brandon. Dangerously irresistible, Ross’s dark, searching eyes are those of a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders…It would be wrong to fall for Ross. But when he offers her a job as his temporary housekeeper she can’t refuse – and soon sensible Meg is scandalously tempted to move from servants’ quarters to the master’s bedroom!The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters Three sisters, three escapades, three very different destinies!

Meet Meg, Bella and Celina—

three loving sisters, desperate to escape

the iron rule of their fanatical rector father…

One by one they flee the vicarage—

only to discover that the real world holds its

own surprises for the now-disgraced Shelley

sisters! How will they get themselves out of the

scandalous situations they find themselves in?

Can betrayed widow Meg learn to love again?

Will pregnant and abandoned Bella find the man to turn her blush of shame to the flush of pleasure?

And how will virginal courtesan-in-training Lina discover the meaning of true passion?

Find out in…

The Transformation of the Shelley Sisters

Three sisters, three escapades,three very different destinies!

Author Note

Welcome to the world of Margaret, Arabella and Celina Shelley. Brought up by a harsh and repressive father, all the sisters wanted from life was love—and by looking for it they found themselves branded as sinners and parted from each other.

Early nineteenth-century England was an unforgiving place for fallen women. Dreamy Meg, practical Bella and innocent Lina fought back against Society, and their own fears, to rebuild their lives and find their true loves, transforming themselves in the process.

This is the story of Meg, the middle sister. Dreamily romantic, she eloped with her childhood soldier sweetheart and found herself learning to be practical and realistic in the brutal world of the war-torn Iberian Peninsula. Now, alone and virtually penniless, she must find her way back to England—and her only hope is dark and brooding Ross Brandon, a man wounded in body and soul.

I hope you enjoy Meg and Ross’s journey as much as I enjoyed discovering it, and that you will rejoin the Shelley sisters to meet Bella in the next book in the trilogy.

Practical Widow to Passionate Mistress

Louise Allen

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Louise Allen has been immersing herself in history, real and fictional, for as long as she can remember, and finds landscapes and places evoke powerful images of the past. Louise lives in Bedfordshire, and works as a property manager, but spends as much time as possible with her husband at the cottage they are renovating on the north Norfolk coast, or travelling abroad. Venice, Burgundy and the Greek islands are favourite atmospheric destinations. Please visit Louise’s website—www.louiseallenregency.co.uk—for the latest news!

Recent novels by the same author:

VIRGIN SLAVE, BARBARIAN KING

THE DANGEROUS MR RYDER

THE OUTRAGEOUS LADY FELSHAM

THE SHOCKING LORD STANDON

THE DISGRACEFUL MR RAVENHURST

THE NOTORIOUS MR HURST

THE PIRATICAL MISS RAVENHURST

Those Scandalous Ravenhursts

Praise forLouise Allen’s

Those Scandalous Ravenhursts

THE DANGEROUS MR RYDER

‘Allen’s latest adventure romance

is a roller-coaster ride that sweeps readers

through Europe and into the relationship

between a very proper baroness and a

very improper spy. The quick pace and

hold-your-breath escape plans turn this love story

into a one-night read that will have you

cheering for the appealing characters.’

—RT Book Reviews

THE OUTRAGEOUS LADY FELSHAM

‘Allen’s daring, sexy and, yes, outrageous

spin-off of THE DANGEROUS MR RYDER

gently borders on erotic romance because of the