THE DUKE AND THE DUBIOUS DAMSELIsabella Winstanley has successfully duped Society about her fortune and her unconventional work among the poor. Until the day she finds herself looking down the barrel of the Duke of Amburley's pistol. Can she deflect his attempts to expose her "wicked masquerade"?London Society believes Isabella Winstanley is a penniless companion. No one knows that she uses her fortune for unconventional work among the poor. Her spinster life is under control-until the day she is caught out by the Duke of Amburley.Amburley is intrigued to find that the ill-clad and mannerless harpy he tried to rescue on the road has been transformed from poor relation to wealthy society lady. A wicked masquerade, without a doubt, and one that will prove to be misguided, once he has exposed her for what she clearly is-an imposter on the catch for a husband.Will Isabella succeed in keeping her secrets while Amburley tries all his tricks to catch her out? The more the pair are together, the more difficult it becomes, especially when Amburley challenges Isabella to a curricle race. Through London's streets, of all places. What will become of Isabella if her outrageous conduct becomes known? And what will Amburley demand as forfeit if she loses their wager?Revised edition of the novel originally published by Harlequin S.A. in 2001 as A Poor Relation Joanna Maitland published 13 Regency historicals with Harlequin Mills & Boon which have sold well over a million copies around the world, with readers in countries as diverse as Japan and Brazil. She is now an independently published author. She is continuing to write Regencies, but also hopping over the hedge into lush new pastures, like medieval romance, time-slip and fantasy. Her latest droolworthy hero -- coming soon -- is a vampire who solves mysteries on the side, with help from a couple of female sidekicks.Joanna is one of the founding partners of Libertà Books where there is a blog every Sunday. Joanna herself blogs about twice a month on all sorts of subjects from Regency costume to self-publishing and formatting your book.Read more about Joanna at libertabooks.com/joanna. The blogs are at libertabooks.com/blog. Joanna's books can be found via Books2Read.com/JoannaMaitland.
