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The Phantom Lover
The Phantom Lover
The Phantom Lover
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The Phantom Lover

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The fascinating stranger who visits a young lady in the dead of night is no ghostly spirit in this spellbinding Regency romance by award-winning author Elizabeth Mansfield

After scandalizing London with her improper behavior and jilting two suitors, Nell Belden is about to do it again. This time she rejects the very wealthy, utterly insufferable nobleman her financially strapped guardians have been pressuring her to marry. Banished to their isolated Cornwall estate, Nell is awakened one night by an unusual apparition.
 
But her midnight visitor is no phantom. He is Captain Henry Thorne, sixth Earl of Thornbury. The new Lord of Thorndene has returned to his crumbling family seat to live in isolation, far from the horrors of war. Nell is intrigued by this wounded soldier who has no desire to take his rightful place in society. As the weeks pass and fascination flames into dangerous desire, Nell realizes she must leave—or risk losing her heart to the one man who can never belong to her.

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Release dateJan 13, 2015
ISBN9781497697744
The Phantom Lover
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Elizabeth Mansfield

Elizabeth Mansfield is a pseudonym of Paula Schwartz, which she used for more than two dozen Regency romances. Schwartz also wrote an American immigrant family saga, A Morning Moon, as Paula Reibel, and two American history romances—To Spite the Devil, as Paula Jonas, and Rachel’s Passage, as Paula Reid.  

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    I loved it! Definitely Elizabeth Mansfield at her best. Talk of romantic comedy...
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    A story about a lesson one could learn about the difficulties one goes through when injured
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    Lovely and clean regency. Read it back to back together with Her Heart's Captain. So glad to have discovered a new-to-me author. Highly recommended!

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