Day 9: Countdown to Valentine's Day

The Tudor Signet-- this was originally published as The Tudor Secret--Art department's error--which makes no sense as there's no Tudor secret in it, just a Tudor signet ring. Ah well....







 Mariette and her feckless cousin Ralph have grown up in the isolated moorland house of their uncle, an eccentric sculptor. Mariette, used to saving Ralph from his scrapes, is horrified when he asks her to retrieve his heirloom signet ring, lost in a card game. She decides to hold up the carriage of the man who won it, with extremely painful results. Lord Malcolm, for his part, is horrified to find he's shot a woman (in an unmentionable part of her anatomy). He's supposed to be looking for French spies, not an adorable, gauche, maddening young lady...