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Meredith Duncan is an unconventional young lady. It is 1900, and while alliances throughout Europe are forged during these turbulent times, Meredith lives in the tiny Alpine country of Eisengau. Its claim to fame is the guns it creates and sells to the highest bidder. Their excellence is unsurpassed, and their creation is a closely guarded secret. Meredith is indispensable as a draftsman, able to re-create sketches from memory. She is employed by the government but also involved in an anarchist group trying to sell plans for a radically designed new cannon so they can help the downtrodden workers of their country. Brian Donovan is on a mission from the president to purchase the cannons from Eisengau when he finds himself embroiled in Meredith’s intrigue. Each has a private agenda—his to save his country and missing brother, hers to help her oppressed countrymen—but they find a common purpose that will eventually unite them in Whiteside’s absorbing, sexily scintillating adventure. --Maria Hatton
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Strikingly handsome, wealthy, and accomplished, Brian Donovan has succeeded in everything he puts his mind to - except marriage. Now, as a favour to his former military commander Teddy Roosevelt, Brian is investigating a powerful new weapon invented in the small European country of Eisengau. The task carries prestige, danger, and an enticing complication in the lithe form of Meredith Duncan. With her deliciously candid approach to all things sensual, Meredith is unlike any woman Brian has known. In fact, she wants him to ruin her reputation - and Brian eagerly obliges, initiating a passionate, playful, and wildly erotic affair...A feminist who believes in free love, Meredith has always battled convention. When her parents urge her toward an odious marriage, Meredith turns to the dashing, thoroughly masculine American who could be her only hope of escape. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and as competition to acquire the new weapon turns deadly, two lovers are drawn into a treacherous game where the stakes run as high as their raw, mutual desire, and the greatest risk of all may lie within an untested and all-consuming love...
