Mistress of the Hunt (32 page)

“Little fool,” he said, chuckling. “Wakefield clearly didn’t teach you the most important thing about decisions.”

“And what is that?”

“That once you decide to do a thing, you should do it at once.”

And with that sage advice, the viscount swept her into his arms again, whereupon it was rapidly borne in upon Lady Philippa as she responded uninhibitedly to his passions that if she did not marry him soon, she stood in grave danger of acquiring a reputation for being fast that would have nothing whatever to do with whether or not she rode with the Melton men.

A fourth-generation Californian of Scottish descent, Amanda Scott is the author of more than fifty romantic novels, many of which appeared on the
USA Today
bestseller list. Her Scottish heritage and love of history (she received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Mills College and California State University, San Jose, respectively) inspired her to write historical fiction. Credited by
Library Journal
with starting the Scottish romance subgenre, Scott has also won acclaim for her sparkling Regency romances. She is the recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award (for
Lord Abberley’s Nemesis
, 1986) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. She lives in central California with her husband.

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