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The Darlington Incident by Renee Rose

The note read simply: Meet me at the Westerfield Estate gatehouse at midnight during their Ides of March ball. Bring the twenty-five thousand in notes to exchange for the plans.

Though spymaster John Andrews does not know the identity of the plotters, he is determined to catch them at their treasonous game. Posing as Lord Darlington, he joins the Westerfield weekend fete. Resourceful and clever, he is ready for anything... except falling for his prime suspect, the lovely wallflower Miss Eliza Hunt.

When he finds secret government documents hidden in Eliza's trunk, his temper gets the better of him and he takes her to task, applying a riding crop to her bare bottom. But new evidence leads him to believe Eliza may be innocent and John fears he can bid farewell to his career after getting fresh with the daughter of the wealthy and well-connected Hunt family. (continued...)

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(...continued) Eliza knows Lord Darlington is not the gentleman he purports to be, but he is the first man to see beyond the ugly birthmark on her face and treat her like a beautiful woman. As he draws her out of her shell and demands she let go of her self-doubt, his claim on her heart grows stronger, even when it becomes clear he stands ready to punish defiance with firm chastisement!

John cannot wait to catch the traitors, clear Eliza of all suspicion, and then claim her as his own, but at the same time he fears his darker desires may mean he is not the sort of man worth having as a husband. Can her whole-hearted love free him from the demons of his past?

Genre: Historical Romance
Content/Theme(s): Spies, Spanking, Domestic Discipline
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Publisher: : Stormy Night Publications

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Excerpt:
She knelt beside him, a sob welling in her throat. “Darlington, Oh God, Darlington.”

“I hope you will understand when I ask you to stay away from me,” he mumbled, bringing tears to her eyes to hear his voice. He was still breathing, though his face was pale and sweat had gathered along his hairline.

She crawled over him and tugged his cravat to untie the knot and loosen it. He lifted his hand and swung his arm, landing his palm square on her backside. “I said leave me,” he rasped.

“I will not,” she said, searching his pockets for a handkerchief as he landed another swat on her bottom.

“You have the most perfect arse for spanking,” he said, his words slurred.

Her eyes flew to his face in surprise.

“I know--inappropriate. But I have been nothing but inappropriate with you, have I not? And still you are here. Which either proves your guilt or your insanity. Dear Eliza, I do not wish to break your neck,” he said. “So you should leave me now.”

She marveled at the fact that he believed her a murderer and the worst he had done was slap her backside. But then, he was not in his right mind. “I do not wish it broken, either, my lord,” she said, mopping his forehead with the handkerchief. “But I cannot leave you to die. Please believe me--I had nothing to do with poisoning you. I mean--I know I gave you the cup, but I did not realize it had been poisoned until after you had drunk it, and then you already knew it, too…” She stopped herself, realizing her babble solved nothing. “Tell me what to do,” she said, giving into the tears pressing behind her eyes. “Darlington, what can I do to save you? Is there anything I can do?” Her voice broke into a sob on the last words, tears streaming down her face.

He brought his hands to her body, plunging them down the neckline of her dress and sweeping along her corset before withdrawing them and yanking her up on his lap.

“Wh-what are you doing?” she sniffed.

“Searching for a knife,” he mumbled. He dragged his hot palms up her outer legs, around the waistband of her drawers and down the insides of her legs.

He toppled over onto his side again, then flopped on his back, appearing very much like a drunk man. She straddled him, peering down at his face. “I assure you I have no weapon. I do not wish to kill you, Darlington. I play no part of this--I promise you.”

“If I were to be killed by anyone, I suppose I should like it to be you,” he muttered, his hands gripping her waist and shifting her weight. She gasped, realizing his hardened length lay between her legs and he derived pleasure from her movement.

She scrambled off him. “That is inappropriate,” she said, her voice sounding as shaky as she felt.

He struggled back to sitting and pulled her torso down over his lap.

“Darlington!” she exclaimed, exasperated, unable to struggle free from his strong grasp.

His hand connected with her bottom with a stinging blow. “Poisoning me is a spankable offense,” he declared.

She giggled through her tears, the situation too ridiculous to sort out how else to respond. Her father, an apparent traitor against her country, just poisoned the man she loved. Meanwhile, Darlington seemed more interested in spanking her than telling her how she might save his life or defending himself if she attempted to murder him. The sharp steady slaps reined in her panicked thoughts as she could focus on nothing other than the insistent tempo over her smarting flesh.

He stopped spanking and pulled up her skirts. She expected him to open her pantalets and spank her on the bare, as he had done in the library that morning, but he slid his hand over her warmed skin, stroking her bottom.

“My lord,” she said, trying again to wriggle free.

“Shh,” he said. His other hand tangled in her hair, stroking it with a caress so tender she melted.
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Other titles by Renee Rose:

The Winter Storm	The Bossman	Milestones	Humbled

The Westerfield Affair	Coming to Terms	The Knight's Prisoner	Safe in His Arms

Pleasing the Colonel	Deathless Love	Betrothed	The Devil of Whiskey Row