A Pearl Desired
(2024)(The third book in the 5 Pearls for the Earl series)
A novel by Louisa Cornell and Andrea K Stein
An accused poisoner plucked from the streets of a Moroccan port finds security as an earl’s mistress
Saida Hossini is so grateful to have escaped the narrow streets of Ceuta with her life intact, she doesn’t question the quiet existence offered by the woman who saved her life, Captain Eleanor Goodrum.She’d had a choice. She could busy herself at one of her mentor’s many estates, training other former fugitives like herself in the fine art of herbalism…or she could take on the life and anonymity of an earl’s mistress. One day a week he's hers to please, to talk to���but sometimes, she wishes there were more. The kindly earl never shares anything of himself beyond the pleasure of his perfect body.
At first she was entranced with the cozy townhouse near all the finest shopping Mayfair had to offer. But now, sometimes in the dark of the night, when the earl is visiting one of his other five mistresses and she’s alone, she chafes against the emptiness of her pampered life.
The favorite Highlander physician of London’s bored noblewomen harbors a shameful secret
Dr. Hamish Douglas, the bastard son of a wealthy Scottish lord, has had a fine life as the favored child of a powerful, influential man whose children born on the correct side of the blanket are all daughters. His father made sure he attended the finest schools in Edinburgh, and now that he’s a physician, Lord Douglas has set him up in a London practice which treats only the wealthiest families close to Prinny’s court.
He has nothing to complain about, but he’s discovered he’d rather be back in the Highlands, treating the poor people in his commoner mother’s village. However, to break away from the velvet cage in which his father has locked him, he needs money. The infamous Captain Goodrum has offered him an intriguing way to escape All he needs to do is teach a Morroccan herbalist the ways of English medicine whilst actually spying on her and reporting back to her protector, Lord Framlingwood. The earl suspects she might be a murderess.
If the money were not so generous for a mere week’s work, he would have balked. But he can’t afford to let a small detail like murder get in his way. Time is running out for him to escape his stifling London practice. He’ll be twenty-nine at the end of the month, and he’s still patiently listening to the imagined illnesses of the wealthy, bored wives of London��s nobility.
Will the sensuous Saida poison Hamish, or will they find the courage together to escape the confines of their unfulfilling lives? Don’t miss this hunky Highlander tale!
Genre: Historical Romance
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