One Night with the Laird. Nicola Cornick

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      Can true love be born from scandal?

      She is young and beautiful and fashionable, Edinburgh’s most flirtatious hostess. But within the merry widow beats a grieving heart. Lady Mairi mourns the husband she lost two years before—and no matter how accomplished a lover Jack Rutherford may be, their wanton night together was an encounter of the body only, and Lady Mairi would prefer to forget it.

      But when Mairi is threatened by a blackmailer, Jack is the only man who can protect her. As they work together to uncover where the danger lies, their passion reignites. Little by little, the masks they wear burn away, and their most private secrets come to light….

       Nicola Cornick’s novels have received acclaim the world over

      ‘Her books are fabulous.’

      —New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn

      ‘Cornick is first-class, queen of her game.’

      —Romance Junkies

      ‘A rising star of the Regency arena’

      —Publishers Weekly

       Praise for the SCANDALOUS WOMEN OF THE TON series

      ‘A riveting read’

      —New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney on Whisper of Scandal

      ‘One of the finest voices in historical romance’

      —SingleTitles.com

      ‘Ethan Ryder (is) a bad boy to die for! A memorable story of intense emotions, scandals, trust, betrayal and all-encompassing love. A fresh and engrossing tale.’

      —Romantic Times on One Wicked Sin

      ‘Historical romance at its very best is written by Nicola Cornick.’

      —Mary Gramlich, The Reading Reviewer

       Acclaim for Nicola’s previous books

      ‘Witty banter, lively action and sizzling passion’

      —Library Journal on Undoing of a Lady

      ‘RITA® Award-nominated Cornick deftly steeps her latest intriguingly complex Regency historical in a beguiling blend of danger and desire.’ —Booklist on Unmasked

      Don’t miss the Scandalous Women of the Ton series, available now!

      WHISPER OF SCANDAL

      ONE WICKED SIN

      MISTRESS BY MIDNIGHT

      NOTORIOUS

      DESIRED

      FORBIDDEN

      Also available from Nicola Cornick

      THE LADY AND THE LAIRD

      DECEIVED

      LORD OF SCANDAL

      UNMASKED

      THE CONFESSIONS OF A DUCHESS

      THE SCANDALS OF AN INNOCENT

      THE UNDOING OF A LADY

      DAUNTSEY PARK: THE LAST RAKE IN LONDON

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       One Night with the Laird

       Nicola Cornick

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

      For Alison Lindsay. Thank you!

      Contents

       Epigraph

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

      Pleasure’s a sin and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.

      –Lord Byron

      CHAPTER ONE

      Edinburgh, Scotland, April 1815

      IT TOOK TEN minutes to cross from Edinburgh New Town to Edinburgh Old Town in a carriage, and for all of those ten minutes Jack had an almost uncontrollable erection the like of which he had never experienced before in his life. He had learned over the previous ten years that anticipation was one of the greatest aphrodisiacs of all; the anticipation he felt tonight was acute and almost impossible to bear.

      Opposite him sat the woman who was the cause of his discomfort. He could not see her clearly in the drifting lamplight, but his awareness of her was sharp. Jack could smell the jasmine perfume that lingered on her hair and on her skin. He could see the shadow of a smile that curved her lips beneath the mask and he could still taste her from the kiss he had snatched a few minutes earlier. She had pushed him away then, but playfully, in a way that promised more, much more.

      He had a rake’s reputation, but it was a long time since he had bedded


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