Mistress: A Novel

After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and G reece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excit ement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinist er blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he ca n do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating history's most legendary be auties--Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite--the former schoolmistress will remake herself, and descend upon London Society as the dazzling mistress o f Marcus Valerius Cloud, the infamous Earl of Masters. Rumors hint that the Earl has disappeared at the blackmailer's hands, and by posing as his unkn own mistress, Iphiginia is convinced she can ferret out the villain. Overni ght, Iphiginia is transformed into a vision with a host of eager admirers, including one she does not expect -- the Earl of Masters himself, who strid es into a shimmering ballroom one evening to cooly reclaim his "mistress". He is everything they say he is. arrogant, attractive, devastatingly sedu ctive, and Iphiginia can't help but be enthralled. But when Marcus agrees t o play along with her charade, she doesn't know that the determined earl ha s plans of his own: to tease and tempt her, until the beautiful deceiver be comes more than his mistress in name only.

Product Info

ISBN: 0553569406

ISBN-13: 9780553569407

Publisher: Bantam Books

Year: 1995

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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