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Beverley Oakley is an Australian author of more than 30 Regency romps, and Victorian and Georgian-set romances laced with mystery and intrigue.Under her other pen names - Beverley Eikli and B.G. Nettelton - she writes Africa-set romantic suspense and Women's Fiction.Born in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Beverley married the handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta while managing a safari lodge.She began her writing career as a journalist, but it was during long aerial survey contracts around the world-typically as the sole woman among the crew-that she began writing romance novels, finding in them an escape from the isolation.Beverley also adores making historical costumes, knitting, and travelling, usually to Norway to visit her older daughter.She lives just north of Melbourne with the same wonderful husband she whisked away from Botswana thirty years ago, together with their youngest daughter, and a gorgeous, dopey Rhodesian Ridgeback who weighs more than she does.When she's not writing, she runs a bed & breakfast & Farmstay business (called Wuthering Heights) in South Australia's beautiful wine growing Clare Valley with her two sisters.You can visit her websites at: www.beverleyoakley.com or www.beverleysbooks.com
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When Lord Peregrine accepts a wager to win the favour of his unscrupulous ladylove, he does not expect to fall in love with the woman he promises to ruin.nnnNor does he question the reasons behind the wager.nnnIt's enough to have proof that the supposedly virtuous Miss Celeste Rosington does not deserve her position as society's darling. nnnnnWhen beautiful, virtuous Celeste Rosington disguises herself to aid her future husband, she inadvertently finds herself in the arms of notorious libertine, Lord Peregrine.nnnBound to an arranged marriage with her cousin, Raphael, since childhood, Celeste is disconcerted by her attraction to dashing Lord Peregrine as she works to reclaim an item Raphael insists is his.nnnDespite her attempts at discretion, Celeste's reputation is suddenly the talk of the town.nnnSomeone, she realises, wishes to see her ruined.nnnBut who? And why?nnnAs Celeste questions the bonds of loyalty she's taken for granted, she must decide if dashing Lord Peregrine is friend or foe.nnnDare she take a chance on love when misplacing her allegiance could come at the cost of her life?
