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China's eyes blazed. "You conceited, insufferable wretch! You flatter yourself!"
Gabriel chuckled. "I don't think so," he disagreed.
"If I cared enough for you to be jealous of you and my cousin," she snarled, mortified into recklessness by his words, "then why did I escape from you at Fox Meadow?"
"Because you were foolish," he replied. "And I think you know it now."
"Oh!" China ground her teeth. That smirk, that cocksure confidence! She longed to rake that smile from his face with her nails. "Get out of here!" she ordered. ''I detest the very sight of you!"
"I don't believe that either," he told her frankly. "And I don't believe you really want me to go. Not just yet, at least."
He leaned toward her and, before China could react, brushed his lips against her throat. Her gasp, the involuntary shudder that shook her, confirmed his suspicions. His hand rose to her breast....
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Sandra DuBay Winner of the Romantic Times Swashbuckler Romance Award
"Sandra DuBay writes wonderful escapist fiction. It fulfills all her readers' fantasies!" Romantic Times
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Other Leisure Books by Sandra DuBay
MISTRESS OF THE SUN KING FLAME OF FIDELITY FIDELITY'S FLIGHT BY LOVE BEGUILED WHERE PASSION DWELLS IN PASSION'S SHADOW BURN ON, SWEET FIRE SCARLET SURRENDER WILDER SHORES OF LOVE TEMPEST WHISPERS OF PASSION
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Quicksilver
Sandra Dubay
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A LEISURE BOOK
August 1990
Published by
Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. 276 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001
Copyright 1990 by Sandra DuBay
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.
The name "Leisure Books" and the stylized "L" with design are trademarks of Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Printed in the United States of America.
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One
New Providence, 1717
China Clairmont sat on the tattered lilac velvet cushions of the windowseat in the captain's cabin of the Black Pearl, pride and joy of her captorthe pirate they called Le Corbeau.
China sighed as she twined a lock of her thick, ash blonde hair around her long delicate fingers. She'd been aboard the ship for more than a week, ever since Le Corbeau had attacked the passenger ship, the Amity, on which she'd been traveling to Virginia.
She hadn't been particularly surprised when the lookout high in the Amity's rigging had spied the pirate ship following in their wake. It was only the latest in a series of
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disasters that had befallen her in the past year.
Only to think, she mused as she looked out at the lights of the settlement in whose harbor Le Corbeau's ship rode at anchor, a mere twelvemonth before, she had been the pampered only child of the elegant and fashionable Baron Louis Clairmont and his wife, Emilia. Their home in London had been a gathering place for the cream of London society. Princes and dukes, diplomats and visiting royalty, had passed through its doors. And their country seatClairmont Courtnestled in the verdant beauty of Derbyshire had been universally admired as the epitome of elegance and grace.
And then... China's beautiful oval face clouded at the memory of that night, that dreadful night when her life had shattered around her. The fire that had destroyed the London house had not only robbed China of her parents, it had stolen away any hopes for a brilliant marriage in the aristocratic circles in which the Clairmonts moved.
For the Baron Clairmont's estate had been entailed away from his female descendants. Upon his death, having no son to succeed him, everything he possessed had gone to his younger brother, Arthur. Lord Clairmont's untimely demise had left his daughter destitute. China had no home, no dowry, no prospects. She was entirely dependent upon
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the charity of the new Baron Clairmont, her uncle.
For six breathless weeks she had waited to hear if her uncle was disposed to be kind to his brother's orphaned daughter. For six sleepless, endless weeks her future hung in the balance.
The reply, when it came, contained both good news and bad. China's uncle was indeed prepared to provide his niece with a home and, when the time came for her to marry, a dowry. That had been the good news. The bad news was that the new Lord Clairmont, an ardent colonial, had no interest in returning to England nor in owning and maintaining an enormous country seat he had no intentions of ever visiting. China, if she wished to avail herself of his offer of a home, would have to go to Virginia, to Montcalm, the plantation her uncle was building near Yorktown on the York River.
And so China had set out aboard the Amity, a small, lightly armed ship owned by her uncle that carried supplies and indentured servants for his plantation. Their voyage had been uneventful, with calm seas and a brisk wind to fill the sails. They were two and a half weeks out of Portsmouth when Le Corbeau had attacked them.
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