La Belle Et L'espionne

La gloire. La fortune. Et enfin une demande en mariage ! Kitty La Bijou a tout pour être heureuse. Actrice adulée de Londres, maîtresse du séduisant Lord Nash, elle a surmonté ses origines modestes – et le secret de sa naissance comme fille illégitime du Vicomte Partington – pour conquérir gloire, fortune et amour. Seule la respectabilité lui échappe encore. Mais lorsqu'elle découvre Araminta, sa demi-sœur de noble naissance, sur le point d'accoucher à peine sept mois après son mariage avec le dangereux Vicomte Debenham, Kitty comprend que la respectabilité ne garantit ni l'honneur ni le bonheur.En voulant aider Araminta, Kitty se trouve malgré elle plongée dans une scandaleuse duperie o s'entremêlent une impitoyable maîtresse de maison close, un collier de rubis inestimable, et l'héritier d'une fortune éblouissante. Beverley Oakley was seventeen when she bundled up her first her 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Unfortunately drowning her heroine on the last page was apparently not in line with the expectations of romance readers so Beverley became a journalist.Twenty-six years later Beverley was delighted to receive her first publishing contract from Robert Hale (UK) for a romance in which she ensured her heroine was saved from drowning in the icy North Sea.Since 2009 Beverley has written more than thirteen historical romances, mostly set in England during the early nineteenth century. Mystery, intrigue and adventure spill from their pages and if she can pull off a thrilling race to save someone's honour – or a worthy damsel from the noose – it's time to celebrate with a good single malt Scotch.Beverley lives with her husband, two daughters and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy the size of a pony opposite a picturesque nineteenth century lunatic asylum. She also writes Africa-set adventure-filled romances tarring handsome bush pilot heroes, and historical romances with less steam and more sexual tension, as Beverley Eikli.