Surrender The Heart

Surrender The Heart
Nina Beaumont

Christopher Blanchard Was Everything She'd Ever Needed…Yet Didn't Want Ariane de Valmont prized her independence above all else, and to secure it, she'd struck a seductive bargain with a tantalizing American. Now she feared that in this heart's gamble, le beau sauvage , as Parisian society had named him, held all the cards… .The son of scandal, Chris Blanchard caused a sensation among the "beau monde," intending to settle old scores and quickly be gone again. Until he was caught by the gaze of Ariane de Valmont, whose eyes bespoke a forever kind of love… .

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u868f96f9-d35a-5032-b4f5-af8e17900010)

Excerpt (#ubb2406f3-0b3c-5eb6-ba50-7ef676f5dd30)

Dear Reader (#u8941b8e0-ab9c-5059-95d0-4b2b3d0812e3)

Title Page (#u0589aaae-828e-5490-ba38-f839ab4e4a03)

About The Author (#uae17002a-8ca5-5691-b5cf-7f08319f98ec)

Dedication (#u1316d4e2-badd-54f8-9016-bb829233f719)

Chapter One (#u960d0986-5d5f-5bb4-a948-52e7abd041c9)

Chapter Two (#u1b7cfd9b-b9bc-5a6e-91ca-c56f7d4d534d)

Chapter Three (#u0dc8092e-4b13-5f89-93d0-3c4812527962)

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Chapter Five (#u6c7d63c6-3c5a-5a2f-8002-b1318987c86c)

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Her beauty was delicate, but there

was nothing fragile about it.

And she was not as cool and serene as she pretended to be, he decided. Her eyes, dark and restless, gave her away. There was passion beneath the cool exterior. And he wanted to be the one to discover it. It occurred to him that it had been a long time since he had wanted anything quite so badly.

“Bon soir.” Insolently he reached for her hand instead of waiting for her to offer it. “So you did remember that you’d promised me the first waltz.”

“I did not promise, Monsieur Blanchard. You demanded.”

“So?” A wealth of insinuation swung with that single word. “And you always give in to demands?” His tawny eyebrows curved upward wickedly. “I shall have to remember that.”

“On the contrary.” Temper darkened her eyes. “I do not deal well with demands at all…!”

Dear Reader

In Nina Beaumont’s new historical, Surrender the Heart, a brash American and an independent Frenchwoman make a dangerous bargain. He will court her to keep away unwanted suitors, and she, in return, will allow him the chance to seduce her. But the two are unprepared for the passionate love that develops between them in this sizzling story set in nineteenth-century Paris.

In Bogus Bride, by Australian author Emily French, a spirited young woman must convince her new husband that although he had intended to marry her sister, she is his true soul mate. And in Knights Divided by Suzanne Barclay, a medieval tale from one of our most popular authors, a young woman finds herself embroiled in a maelstrom of passion and deceit when she kidnaps the rogue whom she believes murdered her sister.

And in our final selection for the month, Judith Stacy’s heartwarming Western, Outlaw Love, a Federal Marshal on the trail of a gang of female outlaws doesn’t realize that the woman he’s falling in love with is their leader.

Whatever your taste in reading, we hope you’ll find a story written just for you between the covers of a Harlequin Historical novel. Keep a lookout for all four titles wherever Harlequin Historicals are sold.

Sincerely,

Tracy Farrell,

Senior Editor