The School for Heiresses
From TEN REASONS TO STAY
by Sabrina Jeffries
One
The new Earl of Monteith, Colin Hunt, had been in possession of Chaunceston Hall less than a day and already trouble was afoot.
Surrounded by unpacked boxes, Colin watched through his study window as a cloaked form darted across the lawn to slip into the stable. It was after midnight; none of the servants he'd hired in London should be about. And since the stable was filled with prime horseflesh he'd purchased at Tattersall's earlier this week . . .
Confound these English thieves to hell! Unearthing his pistol from a box, he loaded it and shoved it into the waistband of his trousers before hurrying into the hall.
Why wasn't some groom outside guarding the stable? Because this wasn't India, of course. In Colin's home country of twenty-eight years, the weather was so balmy that a syce could sleep across the stable doorway very comfortably. But here in England, no sane man slept outdoors in such weather.
Grumbling to himself about the brutal English winter, he d ... read full excerpt from: The School for Heiresses ebook
