A Dangerous Courtship (29 page)
They sat side by side atop the coachman's bench.
"I think of you as 'Mistress Mischief,' for obvious reasons," said Cole.
Marcie bowed her head, quickly hiding the shimmer of tears that suddenly sprang to her eyes. Only one other person had ever called her Mistress Mischief.
"I have offended you," said Cole, misunderstanding her reaction.
Marcie blinked away the wetness from her eyes. She looked up at him. "Quite the opposite. You see, my father used to call me Mistress Mischief."
"It seems I am forever stirring up memories for you."
"Yes," she whispered. "It does seem that way, doesn't it?" And as she spoke, she felt a tiny tremor of feeling inside her breast, a feeling she could not quite express. Happiness at the memory of her father? Yes, it was that... and yet it was so much more complicated, and had more to do with the man seated beside her.
Cole Coachman reached over with one gloved hand to pull up her carriage rug. "Wouldn't want you to catch your death," he murmured.
His gloved hand brushed against her own, and Marcie felt a shiver tingle up her spine. Of a sudden, she could not help but notice how very near he was. She could smell the crisp, clean scent of him, and the delicious smell of cedar emanating from his greatcoat and red scarf. The world sped past as the coach whisked over the road, and to Marcie it seemed as if there was only just herself, Cole Coachman, and Prinny the owl alive in the universe. What a very cozy place it was.
Miss Marcie's Mischief
To Woo an Heiress
Book Two
by
Lindsay Randall
~
To purchase
Miss Marcie's Mischief
from your favorite eBook Retailer,
visit Lindsay Randall's eBook Discovery Author Page
www.ebookdiscovery.com/LindsayRandall
~
Discover more with
Lindsay Randall officially began writing in the third grade. "I remember the moment vividly," Lindsay says. "Every year my family would head to the New England states for two weeks of vacation. It was in Brattleboro, Vermont, that my mother bought me my first diary. By the end of those two weeks, I'd nearly filled the pages. I was hooked. Writing became my passion."
It was during her second year in college that Lindsay turned from journal writing to novel writing. "I was supposed to write a paper about eminent Victorians, but what I actually wrote was the beginning chapter of a romance novel." She sold this—her very first manuscript—to Kensington Publishing at the age of 25.
Since then, 12 other romance novels have followed, as well as dozens of magazine articles. In 2009, she received a Reviewers Choice Award from RT BookReviews.
Lindsay is a member of the Authors Guild of America, the nation's oldest and largest society of published authors, and is a founding member and first president of Pennwriters, a multi-genre writers' organization based in Pennsylvania and beyond.
By day she is a development writer for a private university, while her late nights and weekends are reserved for pursuing her passion—writing romances.
