I tell you, I ran into Zephora Butler the other day in a tea shop. She looked marvelous. How does one do that if one has been in one of those horrid little prisons in Paris? I hear she was starvd and all her hair was gone. I say, how does one ever survive? 

But she escaped, you know. 

Yes, she did.

A French man defended her in prison. (I wonder what they did in that cell, don’t you?) 

Some say she went to school with Caroline Bonaparte and Hortense Beauharnais. Imagine that. Do you think it true? 

But then I also heard through the grapevine that it was our notorious Rafe Durham who crossed the Channel, invaded that prison, then carried her out of that filthy place and took her away. Then for months in France, they lived together!

Can you imagine?

They did! In a tiny French village. Before they could find a discreet smuggler to carry them home to England.

Durham nursed her back to health. But I do wonder what else they did.

Don’t you?

Now, I hear that the other day, she went to see Nathan Rothschild with Durham. She did!

And I can hardly believe it, but she has inherited from her American father millions of Great British Pounds.

Can you believe that?

What will she do with that? Every bachelor from here to Aberdeen will be at her door. What will Rafe Durham do to protect her from that?

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Sir Durham’s Disarming Asset by Cerise DeLand is the 7th in the scintillating romantic suspense series, SCARLETT AFFAIRS.

When Rafe Durham rescued a young lady from prison, he planned to nurse her back to health. Not discover she is the very air he breathes.

And when she makes it clear to him that she loves him, how can he deny he adores her?

But when he does, what does he expect her to do?

Walk away?

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