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Before they had left London, Nick had assumed legal responsibility for the Park—much to the relief of the Viscount Densmore—so Minerva House was well taken care of and as protected as it could be. “Really. But it’s a theatre. Not even when she was holding the whole thing together by a thread.She stood and went to the window, looking out at the once-lush and fertile Townsend land. “Why would I be doing that?” Juliana said, and the question came out at a near-inhuman pitch. Well. Sarah MacLean, bestselling romance author and Washington Post columnist.

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Ladies Sparrow and Davis were very likely watching her now, waiting to see how she would extricate herself from this mortifying situation.

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