When King Louis of France learns that his friend of 14 years, the Duke Sebastian Arrington from England, is in need of a wife, he chooses one of his queen's ladies-in-waiting. He sends the girl's father, John Nottingham Viscount of Doncaster, a letter and commands him to sign his daughter off to the Duke. Ariella Gabrielle Nottingham Delacroix, is the queen of Enlgand's 1st lady-in-waiting, having grown up with her in Paris. Born in London and brought up in France, she loves fashion, music, dancing, and painting. She studied art and literature in Paris, living in a château with her mother, Jacqueline Delacroix, and her three sisters in the countryside while her father lived at Court in England. Her mother being the daughter of a French Aristocrat and her father being the son of an English architect. Her English heritage and beauty mixed with French is what caught the Kings attention. 'An intelligent,cultured,and beautiful, madmoiselle with a wild side. A perfect match for the boistrous and mirthful Duke Sebastian', Henry thought.
When bubbly Emerson Kachi Smith starts working for the handsome Lucas Hendrix, she quickly discovers there's something hot and untamed behind his cold exterior...
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When bubbly Emerson Kachi Smith is offered a job as the personal assistant to the cold and handsome Lucas Hendrix, she's left wondering why. After all, she has no credentials to speak of, and working for a paranoid billionaire CEO who's impossible to please is far from easy. But a few weeks into her job, she begins to realize that she can't judge a book by its cover. Left alone to discover the mystery behind Lucas's cold exterior and to tame her uncontrollable desire to comfort him, she learns they have a lot more in common than she ever thought possible. Could their two lonely hearts share the same dream for happiness?
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Cover designed by April Alforque
Former title 'Coffee And Papers'