The Reckless Miss Grainger

by Margaret Pemberton

In 1880 the meeting place of international royalty and the twilight world of the demi-monde is the dazzling casino at Monte Carlo. Charlotte Grainger is dreaming that her youth and beauty will turn the head of one figure who stands out above Sarah Bernhardt, the Prince of Wales and the crowned heads of Europe - Count Sandor Karolyi, the man referred to as the Devil's Spawn. Will Charlotte be the woman to tame the enigmatic Hungarian - a rich and glamorous man, with a notorious reputation, a man who regards her as mildly amusing? Will she ever get to the bottom of his masked anguish, and can she help him to lay aside the troubled past which threatens his future happiness?

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2002

About the author

Margaret A. Hudson was born on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK, of German extraction. She was daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect. Married with Londoner Mike Pemberton, they have five grown children, today she lives with her husband and four small dogs in Whitstable, Kent. Apart from writing, her passions are tango, travel, English history and the English countryside.

Published since 1975, she is a bestselling romance writer as Margaret Pemberton, and under the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle; Maggie Hudson and Rebecca Dean. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in different parts of the world. She was the fifteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989-1991), she has also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.