Taboo
Chapter One
The Earl of Blackhearth, Nathan Manning, had once considered the heat of a summer's day in India to be stifling. But now, after waiting in the parlor of his great aunt's London home for almost half an hour, surrounded by his mother and two younger sisters, he truly understood what it meant to be stifled. At this point, he would prefer July in India on the back of an unwashed elephant. Anything but this.
And yet he had no choice but to be back in England.
"Nathan, your aunt has been tittering all week about your visit," his mother said with a conspiratorial smile at his sisters, Adelaide and Lydia.
Nathan arched a brow and gave his mother a look that could not be misinterpreted. His aunt, Lady Worthington, was not a woman prone to "tittering" over anyone. And Nathan had clear memories of her once berating him quite savagely when he was a child. He had never been her favorite.
But when the prodigal son returned, it seemed he was remembered as everyone's favorite. Which was why he had been paraded around all week, giggled over, pinched, and basically treated like a piece of ... read full excerpt from Taboo ebook
