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    The Mysterious Marquis
    The Mysterious Marquis
    The Mysterious Marquis
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    The Mysterious Marquis

    By Eileen Ramsay

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    Returned from the Valley of the Kings, Elizabeth Ridgeway enjoys a break from collating her archaeologist papa’s notes by walking in the lovely woods around her Perthshire home. There she discovers a small boy who has fallen into a stream. Since he appears to fear to return to his own home, the secluded Kirkdale Manor, Elizabeth takes him home and discovers that Rowan is motherless and that his father, the Marquis of Kirkdale, has abandoned him to an elderly nurse and a tutor who drinks. Elizabeth decides that she abhors men like the marquis and sets herself to making life more fun for the child.
    Meanwhile in London, the rich, spoiled Alicia has fallen madly in love with the unapproachable marquis. Her father sends his indigent nephew to Scotland to uncover the history of Lord Kirkdale from his estranged father, the stern and forbidding Duke of Strathelvan. At the same time the marquis, deciding that he must rectify the Scottish situation, returns to his Scottish seat just after a snowfall. He is intrigued and amused when a small boy and a red-headed woman - with shapely legs - slide, on a tray, almost under his stallion’s iron-shod hooves.
    Soon the marquis finds himself, his house and his life being rearranged, his relationship with his father and his son repaired, not to mention his son being kidnapped at the British Museum; and then there’s the small matter of a new-fangled idea called The Christmas Tree, complete with lighted candles, in his Drawing Room.
    It’s more than a proud man can bear, or is it?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEileen Ramsay
    Release dateApr 10, 2012
    ISBN9781476114811
    The Mysterious Marquis
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    Eileen Ramsay

    Eileen Ramsay was born in Ayrshire but grew up in Dumfriesshire. After graduation she went to Washington DC where she taught in private schools for some years. She married a Scotsman who took her off California where their two sons were born. She finished her Masters Degree there, fell in love with Mexico, and published her first short stories and a Regency Novel. The family returned to Scotland where Eileen continued to teach and write and to serve – at different times – on the committees of The Society of Authors in Scotland, The Scottish Association of Writers and The Romantic Novelists Association. In 2004, her novel, Someday, Somewhere, was short listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year award.

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