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to him. She found none that she could accept.
    She stumbled backwards, desperate to put distance between herself and Nicholas. “You
     will return to London?” she asked, bracing herself for rejection. “I’ll have your
     word.”
    Nicholas lifted his hands to his temples and began to methodically rub as if in pain,
     barely nodding in agreement.
    “Your word, Nicholas,” Sophia pressed, regretting the childish demand the moment it
     flew from her lips.
    “Go!” he roared, pointing savagely at the door.
    Sophia started at the guttural cry and ran for the door, not pausing even once to
     look back.

About the Author
    A native Northwesterner with the pale skin to prove it, STEFANIE SLOANE credits her
     parents’ eclectic reading habits—not to mention their decision to live in the middle
     of nowhere—for her love of books. A childhood spent lost in the pages of countless
     novels led her to college, where she majored in English. No one was more surprised
     than Sloane when she actually put her degree to use, landing a job in Amazon.com’s
     editorial department. She spent more than five years reading for a living before retiring
     to concentrate on her own stories. Stefanie Sloane lives with her family in Seattle.

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