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Miss Amity Doncaster, world traveler, is accustomed to adventure in exotic lands. But one does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight... Trapped in a carriage, blade at her throat, Amity is forced to listen to the most vile taunts and threats, whispered in her ear by the fiend known in the press as the Bridegroom. Her quick thinking, and a secret weapon, save her...for now. But the Bridegroom survives the wounds she inflicts. And, unwholesomely obsessed by her scandalous connection to Benedict Stanbridge--a man of science as well as high rank and wealth--he is determined to recapture his prey. Amity had met Benedict only recently--and under quite dramatic circumstances. She saved him from a near-fatal gunshot and accompanied him aboard a ship bound from the Caribbean to New York City. Somehow, the gossip about their hours alone in his stateroom seems to have crossed the Atlantic faster than any sailing vessel. Benedict, a spy for the Crown as well as a... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге OTHERWISE ENGAGED (QUICK, AMANDA)