How to Pursue a Princess (The Duchess Diaries, Book 2) by Karen Hawkins

By Karen Hawkins

"**The moment novel in *New York instances* bestselling writer Karen Hawkins’s gleaming Duchess Diaries sequence includes a younger girl determined for a filthy rich marriage, a prince who pretends to be terrible, and a meddling godmother.**

Lily Balfour has spent her complete existence less than the shadow of economic spoil, and she’s decided to save lots of her kin within the merely manner on hand to women—by marrying good. whilst the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lily’s godmother, broadcasts she’s came across the right fit for Lily, the good-looking, speeding, and very filthy rich Earl of Huntley, Lily hopes they’ll fall wildly in love, marry, and that his wealth will retailer her relatives. but if Prince Pietr Wulfinski, the poorest of the Russian princes, walks into the Duchess’s ballroom and sweeps a sizzling, possessive look over her, Lily understands she’s in colossal hassle. Marry the secure, good-looking, and prosperous Earl, or the damaging, rakish, yet negative Prince? To make the proper selection, Lily needs to come to a decision if she’ll take heed to her center or her head…
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Sophie fell and I caught her,” Alpin said, giving Eric a hard look that dared the man to argue. Eric met that gaze for a moment, then shrugged and moved to pick up the stool and chair. ” “The stool was upon the chair and Lady Sophie was upon the stool. ” Eric asked, only to have Alpin silently reply by pointing to a spot above the doors. “Oh, I see. ” “Aye,” replied Sophie. ” “‘Tis about four hundred and thirty years too late for that,” murmured Alpin, and met Sophie’s cross look with one raised brow.

If I try to hold her, I will simply smother all that sweet light with my own darkness. ” “Nella, I need some time alone,” Sophie said, halting her maid when the woman tried to follow her into the bedchamber they shared. “But, m’lady,” Nella began to protest. “I need to think, Nella. ” “Actually, Nella, I fell, knocked him to the ground, and he kissed me. com/processtext/ That is all. Now, go. Please. ” The moment Nella left, Sophie hurled herself facedown on the bed. She knew she had been attracted to the laird from the first moment she had set eyes on the man.

One thing he was determined to do for her was shield her from the dangerous, superstitious fears of those like Sir Peter. It might even, in some small way, assuage the hurt he had inflicted. Or, he mused, he could allow himself to fall in the coming battle, ending her pain as well as his own. He sighed and forced himself to concentrate on the conversation. Fate would never allow him to escape his dark destiny so easily. com/processtext/ “That Lady Margaret is a worse coward than I, and that be saying a lot,” muttered Nella as she sat before the fire in their bedchamber sewing a torn hem upon one of Sophie’s gowns.

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