Second Time Lucky
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Last published Sat, Apr 7, 2018
Lavinia and Charles were childhood friends, but when Charles' father died unexpectedly, he had to return to France to take up his duty as Duke of Lorraine.
In the years that followed, no one really knew what happened to Lavinia, but speculation arose when rumours gathered around the death of her aunt.
Nine years later, Charles returns to England to spend some time away from the scandal he caused at French court. Gone is the chubby cheeked boy, replaced by a veritable rakehell. And a rakehell never shirks his duty of enjoying the company of women.
Not least when one particular woman has changed so much from the girl who used to put toads in his bed.
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