The first book in the Carsington Family series from award-winning romance author Loretta Chase!

Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire--in winter!--where he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he--and maddeningly irresistible.

Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble. The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive, oversensitive and over-bright aristocrat reminding her she has a heart--not to mention a body he claims is so unstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.

Could the situation be any worse? And why does something that seems so wrong feel so very wonderful?

Author: Loretta Chase
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 03/02/2004
Series: Carsington Family #1
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 6.76h x 4.26w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780425194836
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/2004 pg. 112
Booklist 03/15/2004 pg. 1275
Romantic Times 03/01/2004 pg. 27 - Excellent
LJ Best Books of Year 01/01/2005 pg. 56

About the Author
Loretta Chase holds a B.A. from Clark University, where she majored in English and minored unofficially in visual art. Her past lives include part-time teaching at Clark and a Dickensian six-month experience as a meter maid. In the course of moonlighting as a corporate video scriptwriter, she fell under the spell of a producer who lured her into writing novels . . . and marrying him. The union has resulted in more than a dozen books and a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award.