Knew it was about to pounce just as she needed all her wits about her.

She'd felt a headache lurking there for the last several miles, and she Helen stifled a sigh and massaged her right temple. 'D'you think a proper castle ought to be pink?'

'It's pink.' Jamie had pressed his nose to the small window, clouding the glass with his breath. Naturally, her offspring feigned deafness. 'Children,' Helen said rather too sharply, but then they had been in one cramped carriage after another for the better part of a fortnight. 'Just 'cause it has a tower don't mean it's a castle,' Jamie objected, frowning at the suspect castle. ''Tis a castle, silly,' his nine-year-old sister, Abigail, replied. 'Is that it?' Jamie, her five-year-old son, was kneeling on the musty carriage seat cushions and peering out the window. Rather belatedly-realized that the whole trip may've been a horrible mistake.

It was as the carriage bumped around a bend and the decrepit castle loomed into view in the dusk that Helen Fitzwilliam finally-and Now dark began to fall as Truth Teller made the crest of the mountain and saw a magnificent castle, black as sin. Renee Supriano, and Tanisha Christie to the amazing GCP art department, particularly Diane Luger for my wonderful coversĪnd sexy stepbacks (rhoar!) and last, but certainly not least, to my copy editor, Carrie Andrews, who has once again unraveled To the spectacular GCP sales team, including Bob Levine to the super GCP publicity department, including Melissa Bullock, Taylor, who has nerves of steel even when the deadline is this close to my editor, Amy Pierpont, whose editorial suggestions are always spot-on to her wonderful assistant, Alex Logan Thank you to Eileen Dreyer, who answers even the most gory and bizarre medical questions with aplomb to my agent, Susannah The Forever name and logo is a trademark of Hachette Book Group Inc. Visit our Web site at įorever is an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. Retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.Įxcerpt from To Desire a Devil copyright © 2009 by Nancy M. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are

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