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Huzzah for another Julia Quinn! Olivia, by the way, is best friend to Miranda of The Secret Diaries of Miranda Cheever. When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbour may have killed his fiancée, she doesn't believe it for a second, but still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches, and waits and discovers a most intriguing man, who is definitely up to something.
Sir Harry Valentine works for the boring branch of the War Office, translating documents vital to national security. He's not a spy, but he's had all the training, and when a gorgeous blonde begins to watch him from her window, he is instantly suspicious. But just when he decides that she's nothing more than a nosy debutante, he discovers that she might be engaged to a foreign prince, who might be plotting against England. And when Harry is roped into spying on Olivia, he discovers that he might be falling for her himself.
Excerpt: The girl in the house to the north was watching him again. She'd been doing it for the better part of a week now. …So she was almost certainly the daughter. Which meant that he had no reason to suppose she was anything other than a typically nosy society miss, the sort who thought nothing of peering at one's new neighbours. Except that she had been watching him for five days. Surely if she were curious about only the cut of his coat and the colour of his hair, she'd have completed her perusal by now.
He'd been tempted to wave. Plaster an enormous, cheerful smile on his face and wave. That would put a halt to her spying. Except then he would never know why she was so interested.
Which was unacceptable. Harry never could tolerate an unanswered "why."
Not to mention that he was not quite close enough to her window to see her answering expression. Which defeated the purpose of the wave. If she was going to be embarrassed, he wanted to see it. What was the fun in it, otherwise? |
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