![]() ![]() Really? Lady Harrington asked, peering out the window. A few moments later, his father emerged from the same hedge maze, looked about him, then retrieved Lady Milbome, his current paramour, from the bushes.Įvidently my mother has acquired a new lover, Jordan drawled sarcastically. Mild cynicism marred the youthful handsomeness of his lean features as Jordan watched his mother and her newest lover cross the lawns and saunter into the arbor. Their laughter drifted up through Jordan’s open window as they linked arms. A moment later Lord Harrington emerged, retying his neckcloth. Casting a brief, furtive look about her, she straightened the bodice of her dress and smoothed her heavy dark hair into some semblance of order. As he gazed at the hedge maze below, he saw his mother emerge from the shrubbery. Jordan Addison Matthew Townsende, the future Duke of Hawthorne, seemed not to hear her as he looked out across the grounds of the palatial estate that would, upon his father’s death, become his. What do you see that interests you more than I? Lady Catherine Harrington asked as she wrapped the sheet around herself and walked over to the window. Frowning slightly, she studied the darkly handsome youth of eighteen who was standing at the window of his bedchamber, his shoulder propped against the window frame, looking out across the back lawns, where a party in honor of his mother’s birthday was in progress. ![]() THE VOLUPTUOUS BLOND WOMAN lifted up on an elbow and pulled a sheet to her breasts. ![]()
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![]() As Vivienne will learn, Mikah is more than he seems, and for reasons unknown, he’s determined to be her knight in shining armor. Suit” seems to be Vivienne’s opposite: rich, well-fed, successful. As if growing up with an alcoholic, drug addicted mother wasn’t traumatic enough, she’s escaped from her physically and verbally abusive boyfriend only to struggle every day to make ends meet as a waitress in a Minneapolis diner.Along comes Mikah Blake, a handsome stranger who quickly takes an unexpected and persistent interest in her. ![]() ![]() more Vivienne Callahan has known only hardship. ![]() Vivienne Callahan has known only hardship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the young man had a small daughter, Maddie, and Claire is the one who gets the call to take charge of the child after her father’s death.Īs Claire works to find a safe foster home for the child, she also finds out that the girl’s father was the son of an extremely rich and well-known mine owner in town, James Alsbrook. Although the candidate is found safe and unharmed, his campaign manager, Jason, is found dead in the aftermath. Marcus Freedman, a man who is running for mayor, is bombed. In Little White Lies, Claire is just trying to do her job and make her new relationship work when she is pulled into the world of mystery. The author’s background, having worked for the child welfare department, makes her the perfect person to write about it and she does not disappoint in regards to her facts or her mysteries. ![]() The book is an excellent mystery full of exciting twists and turns and, as always, filled with factual information on how the child welfare system is run and the lives of those who work for the system. Little White Lies is the third book in Margaret Fenton’s series revolving around social worker Claire Conover. ![]() ![]() Little White Lies: Social Worker Claire Conover Mystery #3 ![]() |