TEMPTING HARRIET

By Mary Balogh

Synopsis

Lady Harriet Wingham, a widow, takes her young daughter to London to stay with friends. There she becomes reacquainted with the Duke of Tenby, the man who broke her heart six years earlier when he offered her carte blanche instead of marriage. This time he has honourable intentions toward her, but Harriet misunderstands and impulsively agrees to become his mistress. And so begins an affair disastrous to them both, for their feelings for each other cannot be satisfied by such a casual and clandestine arrangement.

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Narrator	Maggie Stokes
Length	11hrs
Catalogue No.	16892
Publisher	Penguin Books; 1994

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