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Authors: Loretta Chase

BOOK: Your Scandalous Ways

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Author's Note

Lord Byron's spelling, like that of many people of the time, including Jane Austen, is more haphazard than ours. His punctuation is distinctively his own. So no, those are not typos in the poem excerpts. Those areâ¦Byron.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to:

Anna Baldi for helping me put the correct Italian words in my characters' mouths.

Owen Halpern, Sherrie Holmes, Margaret Evans Porter, and Katherine Shaw for their invaluable help with matters Venetian.

My family and friends, with special thanks to Walter, Cynthia, Mary Jo, Nancy, and Twin Girl.

About the Author

LORETTA CHASE holds a B.A. from Clark University, where she majored in English and minored unofficially in visual art. Her past lives include clerical, administrative, and part-time teaching at Clark and a Dickensian six-month experience as a meter maid. In the course of moonlighting as a corporate video scriptwriter, she fell under the spell of a producer who lured her into writing novelsâ¦and marrying him. The union has resulted in more than a dozen books and a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America's RITA
^Â®Award. You can talk to Loretta via her e-mail address,
[email protected],
visit her website at
www.LorettaChase.com,
and blog with her and six other authors at
WordWenches.com.

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By Loretta Chase

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Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

YOUR SCANDALOUS WAYS
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