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Short Historical Erotica
Rating: Moderate Sexual Content/Language
Captain Braddock is temporarily in charge of a branch of the army during the Civil War. When some of his hot-headed soldiers take it into their heads to assault laundress Faith Dempsey, Braddock steps in to rescue the young woman from their unwanted attentions…but Faith isn't quite the damsel-in-distress Braddock assumes her to be!
Braddock, intrigued by Faith's self-assurance and independence, soon begins to wonder just who is in charge of whom when Faith takes command of his heart!
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Read what the reviewers are saying...
"9 Gargoyles...A delightful and fast-paced historical with highly erotic scenes...When you reached the end you couldn't help but wish there was more. I would definitely recommend this novella."—Aline de Chevigny, In the Library Reviews
Read a short excerpt...
…The girl struggled to free herself. The captain kept his fist tight around her arm. "Oh, no, you don't. You're coming with me. I want to know what this was all about. Those men are in for some very serious repercussions if the situation is as bad as it looked, and I want to know how it came to pass that you were at the center of it."
The girl gave her arm a last, exploratory shake. "I was fine. I got free on my own, didn't I?"
"That's not exactly the way it looked to me, no."
"Well, I did. And anyway, it wouldn't have happened at all if there hadn't been so many of them. Usually they come in twos and threes, and that's not enough to be worried about." She sounded annoyed, rather than outraged.
In fact, shouldn't a girl who had been about to be raped be a little upset right about now? Maybe teetering on the verge of hysteria? He was taken aback at her cavalier attitude. "Those men were about to—"
"I know what they were about to do," she snapped at him. "I'm not a child."
He remembered how the soft curves of her had felt when he had grabbed her to restrain her. "No, no, you're not…"
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