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  “For a protocol-driven Archeduke, you’re doing quite well yourself in the romping department,” she pointed out.

  Tor looked at his bare legs and laughed. “Thank God no one can see us. The Council would be horrified.”

  “That was the point of bringing you here,” Bronwen said. “Since Baumgärtner retired, you have been working far too hard. And in my family—”

  “We do as we please,” he finished.

  “You’re part of the family now,” she added. “That means you can do exactly as you please. You can be Tor Besogende for the entire week, if you want. Not a single person will raise a single brow in your direction. No one outside the family will ever learn of it, either.”

  He picked up her hand, his expression sober. “Thank you for this, my love.”

  They stood in the moonlight, watching the waves, peace settling over them and a deep contentment.

  Tor laughed and turned to her. “Do you remember, in Yorkshire, the side of the stable…?”

  Bronwen caught her breath. “There is no stable here,” she said as primly as she could.

  “However, there is a very large rock and look, you wear no hoops and no underthings.” He drew her out of the water and up into the dry sand, his hands busy, his mouth branding her face and throat.

  “Why, Mr. Besogende!” she chided him, as she hitched her skirt out of the way and wrapped her leg about his thigh.

  His hand slid beneath. It was warm and large and made her shiver. “There she is. The woman I love…” he breathed and kissed her.

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  Tracy Cooper-Posey is a #1 Best Selling Author. She writes science fiction and romance. She has published over 90 books since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favorite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.

  She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year and Byzantine Heartbreak was a 2012 winner. Faring Soul won a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught writing at MacEwan University.

  She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, reading science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

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  FIRST EDITION: January 2018

  Cooper-Posey, Tracy

  Mask of Nobility/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.

  Romance—Fiction

  Historical – Fiction