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HELD CAPTIVE BY A ROGUE

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Time 7h 9m

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The wild and spirited Kathryn Grey excitedly joins her father and his new wife in London for the season. Her stay there is only brief though for after attending her first ball, which ends in total disaster, she knows she must flee the city immediately. She must get away from the town's most sinister lecher, Lord Roger Chatsworth, Earl of Somerset. Alone and frightened she embarks on what will be the most perilous journey of her young life. That's where she meets Lord Christopher Steele, the infamous rogue of all London. Now destiny awaits this unlikely pair, when a chain of events and unusual circumstances thrusts them together.
  
       Who will come out victorious in this battle of wills between the arrogant Marquis and his fiery captive?  Will he finally allow himself to find true love or will his pride and arrogance forever prevent him from ever experiencing it?All Rights Reserved

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