Lord St. Claire's Angel by Donna Lea Simpson

Read onlineĪs chaperone to the Season's most desirable young miss, Amy Corbett has two specific duties: to ensure that her charge's reputation remain spotless, and to see her betrothed to an exceptional beau. But as he and Rachel spend more time together, he finds her once-haughty manner thawing into the warmth and vivaciousness that attracted him so many years ago, just as he is finding a growing strength and confidence of his own.As.

Stranger still, she is preoccupied with thoughts of Colin Varens, a wholly unsuitable man whose proposals she has rejected several times.Colin can't remember a time when his heartfelt declarations for Rachel weren't being rebuffed, but the rough-and-tumble country gentleman has finally come to terms with the rejection-and Rachel's betrothal-and has made peace with her as friends. Yet despite the secure future that lies ahead, Rachel is suddenly questioning her acquiescence to the strictures of the ton-and her future husband. Read onlineįor as long as she or anyone else can remember, the beautiful but cold Rachel Neville has always adhered strictly to society's rules, and she is now reaping the rewards with an offer of marriage from an eminently suitable fiancé. Claire discovers this conquest may be more challenging than expected when the thoughtful and intelligent Celestine begins to fire an ache in his own. When he learns on his annual Christmas visit that the drab Celestine was hired as governess solely to thwart his dalliances, he devises a scheme to both stir her heart and spite his family's interfering ways.But as his game unfolds, the cunning St. Claire Richmond, Langlow's brother, is a rogue and seducer, content to while away his days pursuing pleasure-and driving his brother and sister-in-law mad by reducing their female staff to lovelorn fools with his flirtations. Never one to bemoan her change in fortune, Celestine is content to spend her days raising and overseeing their children, knowing in her heart she will never have any of her own.Lord St.

Celestine Simons was of good family, but an untimely death and a shortage of funds forces the homely spinster to take a position as governess at the estate of Lord Langlow and his wife.

Lord St. Claire's Angel by Donna Lea Simpson