Special thanks go to my agent, Kimberly Whalen, without whose clear head, keen sense of character and story, and direct approach to publishing I would be at a great loss.

To my husband, Laurent, whose support, love, and encouragement buoy me and give me courage and inspiration, I owe the greatest thanks. I love all our dates, not only the ones during which we work out my plots.

Finally, I offer warm, heartfelt thank yous to my readers. Your letters, messages, posts, and tweets, and your visits to me at book events, make writing love stories that much more wonderfully fun. I am grateful for your hearts that are so beautifully and joyfully open to love. I am grateful for you.

For the latest news and gossip about the dashing heroes and daring heroines of my Falcon Club series, I hope you will visit my website at www.KatharineAshe.com.

One last literary note: Wyn’s feverish reference to purgatory, paradise, and Beatrice is from the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The medieval Florentine poet’s love for the unattainable Beatrice was immortalized in his Purgatorio, Paradiso, and other poems.

About the Author

Award-winning author KATHARINE ASHE was named among Booklist’s New Stars of Historical Romance, and her novella, A Lady’s Wish, launched HarperCollins Publishers’ romance imprint Avon Impulse. Reviewers call her novels “radiant,” “lushly intense,” “thrilling,” and “breathtaking.”

Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her husband, son, two dogs, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European history, she has made her home in California, Italy, France, and the northern U.S. Please visit her at www.katharineashe.com or write her at PO Box 51702, Durham, NC 27717-1702.

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Romances by Katharine Ashe

How a Lady Weds a Rogue

How to Be a Proper Lady

When a Scot Loves a Lady

In the Arms of a Marquess

Captured by a Rogue Lord

Swept Away by a Kiss

A Lady’s Wish


Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

HOW A LADY WEDS A ROGUE. Copyright © 2012 by Katharine Brophy Dubois. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition OCTOBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062030658

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062031891

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