The Beast and The Bookseller by Eva Devon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Eva Devon
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Miss Elizabeth Sharpe had never met a duke.
But it seemed she was about to. And in unpleasant circumstances. She
stared down at the small missive that her father had hidden away in his
chaotic and rather messy office at the back of the bookstore.
She had been in search of documents regarding a large book purchase. And
she’d found a stack. Documents containing concern at first, and then evergrowing warnings.
From the Duke of Montrose.
The words were scrawled in a bold, determined hand across the ivory
paper.
They were in a great deal of trouble. The note was quite terse.
Mr. Sharpe, I am deeply disappointed with your behavior as of late,
though I am loathe to leave my townhouse. As you know, I shall be in
attendance at the bookshop at 10 am on the 11th of April. You will greet
me, and we shall sort this out. Tradition must be met, but if you cannot
uphold your bargain, I shall have to seek out other avenues.
Other avenues.
She felt her stomach turn and spin inside her.
Elizabeth glanced to the clock.
Two minutes. The duke would arrive in two minutes, and her father was
nowhere to be seen. He had gone out the night before, as he did so often now,
but he had not returned. A circumstance that was growing more and more
common as of late.
What the blazes was she going to do?
She resisted the urge to whirl around as she struggled to catch her breath.
Instead, she raised her hand and touched the small crocus pin near the throat
of her simple gown, desperately hoping the action of touching something of
her mother’s would calm her. The bookshop had been her home all her life.
She adored its nooks and crannies. Its strange little quirks. Its myriad shelves
that she had spent days organizing in new ways, since her father had given up
taking care of the shop after her mother’s death.
Rows and rows of beautifully bound books lined every surface. Usually,
the sight lifted her heart, no matter how difficult things seemed, but now her
heart was pounding with such rapidity she feared it might pound right out of
her chest. She stared at the stack of books she’d been about to shelve, trying
to steady her nerves. It was a wonderful collection on the burgeoning subject
of archaeology and the events around the discoveries of ancient sites in the
country of Egypt.
It was a difficult but rewarding text, for it detailed all that was happening
there. She had mixed feelings about the archaeologists, who seemed to think
that stealing was the same as collecting history.
Still, the printed pictures were mind-boggling. She’d never left London, let
alone gone to another continent, and the books allowed her such an escape.
She wished she could escape at this particular moment.
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