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would have answered to any name."
    "Then your name's not Isadore?"
    She shook her head.
    "You are well born, are you not?"
    She nodded. "Until two days ago I had answered to the name Lady Sophia Devere for seven and twenty years. And, I must tell you, I am also the sole heiress to my grandmother's fortune."
    He nuzzled soft kisses along the column of her neck. "I should prefer an entirely different name for you."
    Dare she hope? "Pray, what name would that be?" She circled her arms around him, her heartbeat galloping.
    "Mrs. Birmingham?"
    "I suppose I need to accept. I must reform your wicked ways. I'm prepared to help you financially, only I beg that you never involve yourself with smugglers ever again."
    He held her tightly and laughed, a deep raucous laugh.
    "Pray, what is so funny?"
    "You don't know who I am?"
    "Of course I know who you are. You're Mr. William Birmingham, smuggler of gold bullion."
    He stood back and drew her hands into his. She felt unaccountably secure.
    "You've heard of Nicholas and Adam Birmingham?" he asked.
    "Who hasn't? They're the wealth- - -" She stopped, suddenly realizing her great stupidity. "They're your brothers?"
    His eyes laughing, he nodded.
    "You're from that Birmingham family?"
    "Sorry to disappoint."
    "Why in the world do you resort to smuggling gold if you're that ridiculously wealthy?"
    He shrugged. "A single man can take risks. I liked the excitement."
    "Then I daresay you must marry." She moved into his arms. Nowhere on earth could ever feel better.
    * * *
    Downstairs, where, thankfully the Finkie mess had been cleaned, they met up with their servants.
    Dottie's eyes glittered with excitement. "Oh, milady, you won't believe it, but Mr. Thompson said he's been fiercely attracted to me since that first night, but he dared not aim at such a high-born lady! He was talkin' about me!" Dottie launched into a sniveling giggle.
    Sophia faced the valet. "I must felicitate you, Mr. Thompson. You have excellent taste in women."
    "And, my good man," William added, "you will be happy to learn that my house will be merging with this lady's house very shortly." He looked down at Sophia most lovingly.
    "Very good, sir," Thompson said.
    Once more, she found herself in his embrace. "Do not be surprised, my lady, when you're a shrunken little white-haired woman and you husband is still calling you Isadore."

    THE END

    COMING SOON:

    A Most Discreet Inquiry
    (Book 2, The Regent Mysteries)
    June 2012

    It all started quite innocently when Lady Daphne Chalmers's duchess sister came to her sleuthing sibling for help in retrieving love letters she wrote to Major Styles, now deceased. But as Daphne and her own lover, Captain Jack Dryden of His Majesty's Hussars, join forces to track down the letters, they follow a trail of treachery and murder that threatens the entire kingdom.

    Marriage of Inconvenience
    Love Inspired Historical
    October 2012

    A loveless marriage between a bluestocking and a powerful peer turns out to be anything but. . .

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