I must tell you...

Widower Lady Deborah Napier holds many secrets - despite her icy exterior she is the authoress of the shameless romances currently shocking the ton. And accomplice and lover to Elliot Marchmont, gentleman, and notorious London thief
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Lady Cressida Armstrong has given up marrying. Until she meets disillusioned artist Giovanni di Matteo. Cressie is the one whose face and body he dreams of capturing on canvas and in the intimate world of his studio, Giovanni rediscovers his passion as he awakens her own . . .