The Leopard Prince
Chapter One
YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
SEPTEMBER 1760
After the carriage wreck and a bit before the horses ran away, Lady
Georgina Maitland noticed that her land steward was a man. Well,
that is to say, naturally she knew Harry Pye was a man. She wasn't
under the delusion that he was a lion or an elephant or a whale, or
indeed any other member of the animal kingdom-if one could call a
whale an animal and not just a very big fish. What she meant was
that his maleness had suddenly become very evident.
George knit her brow as she stood in the desolate high road leading
to East Riding in Yorkshire. Around them, the gorse-covered hills
rolled away into the gray horizon. Dark was rapidly falling, brought
on early by the rainstorm. They could've been standing at the ends
of the earth.
"Do you consider a whale to be an animal or a very big fish, Mr.
Pye?" she shouted into the wind.
Harry Pye's shoulders bunched. They were covered only by a wet lawn
shirt that clung to him in an aesthetically pleasing way. He'd
previously discarded his coat and waistcoat to help John Coachman
unhitch the horses from th ... read full excerpt from The Leopard Prince ebook
