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The Mysterious Heir

THE EXQUISITE PRETENDER

In dress, manner, and speech, Miss Elizabeth DeLisle seemed every inch a leisured lady. No one could guess she had been forced to take a position in trade—or that she had come to the Earl of Auden’s estate to entice him into naming her dismayingly disagreeable cousin Anthony heir to a fortune that she then could share. But Elizabeth had stiff competition for the Earl’s imperious favor…from the schemingly seductive Lady Isabel Courtney and her odious little boy, Owen…from the implacably upright Richard Courtney and his unfortunate honesty…and from the memory of the Earl’s first wife, who had made him despise women who deceived. Elizabeth knew she could never reveal the truth to the Earl—even when she forgot about gaining his fortune and began losing her heart….

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Edith Layton

Edith Layton grew up in Queens, New York, and worked as a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines before publishing her first novel, The Duke’s Wager, with Signet/NAL. She won numerous awards, starting in 1984 with the Romantic Times Award for Best New Regency Author. Publishers Weekly called Edith Layton “one of romance’s most gifted writers,” and in 2004 she received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romances Set in the British Isles. Married to her physician husband for 35 years, she had three children, and went on to publish over 30 novels and many more short stories. Edith Layton also published under her married name, Edith Felber.

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