What happens when you take a 1930s comedy like My Man Godfrey and turn it into a Victorian romance? Chaos ensues. Georgiana Manning has finally found something she wants, something worth fighting for—her family's mysterious, newly hired butler. Rafferty is a thief, out to find a cache of money belonging to his former boss. When he’s unexpectedly offered the job of butler in the house where it’s hidden, he jumps at the chance, even though the Manning family's younger daughter has an inconvenient crush on him. Rafferty is a lone wolf who plans to stay that way—there’s no room in his life for Georgie. He could find pleasure in romancing her, but he sees no happy ending for a young lady and a thief, or even worse, a butler. Complicating matters, a criminal mastermind is pressuring Rafferty to locate the money, and that mastermind is not above threatening what Rafferty holds dear—Miss Georgiana Manning. All Georgie wants is the beautiful butler with the piercing blue eyes, though she knows he’s beyond her touch. All Rafferty wants is the hidden money and his freedom. Too bad he’s falling in love.
Author
Anne Stuart is a grandmaster of the genre, winner of Romance Writers of America's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, survivor of more than thirty-five years in the romance business, and still just keeps getting better. Her first novel was Barrett's Hill, a gothic romance published by Ballantine in 1974 when Anne had just turned 25. Since then she's written more gothics, regencies, romantic suspense, romantic adventure, series romance, suspense, historical romance, paranormal and mainstream contemporary romance for publishers such as Doubleday, Harlequin, Silhouette, Avon, Zebra, St. Martins Press, Berkley, Dell, Pocket Books and Fawcett. She’s won numerous awards, appeared on most bestseller lists, and speaks all over the country. Her general outrageousness has gotten her on Entertainment Tonight, as well as in Vogue, People, USA Today, Women’s Day and countless other national newspapers and magazines. When she’s not traveling, she’s at home in Northern Vermont with her luscious husband of thirty-six years, an empty nest, three cats, four sewing machines, and one Springer Spaniel, and when she’s not working she’s watching movies, listening to rock and roll (preferably Japanese) and spending far too much time quilting. Anne Stuart also writes as Kristina Douglas.
