![]() With some help from her well connected friends, Maria becomes an overnight success, but Phillip continues to think the worst of her, even after he kisses her. Maria instead works as hard as possible to get her patisserie ready and subvert Phillip’s demands. ![]() Maria isn’t surprised that Phillip still issues commands and orders her to leave, though when she fights back, instead he orders her to stay away from Lawrence. Maria had struck out on her own after being banished by Phillip after he found out about a plan between Maria and Lawrence to elope. Maria, Phillip and Phillip’s brother Lawrence had grown up together, though Maria was the daughter of their chef. The building that she leases, however, is next door and in fact owned by Phillip Hawthorne, the Marquess of Kayne. With a loan from her friend and former roommate prudence, Maria Martingale is able to open her own patisserie. Maria Martingale is a pastry chef, and it looks as though there are many interesting adventures of the girl-bachelors to come. These girl-bachelors have a wide array of careers, as Emma worked as a secretary and Prudence was a seamstress. ![]() The first two, And Then He Kissed Her and The Wicked Ways of a Duke, which follow the friends of the heroine of Secret Desires. ![]() This is the third in Guhrke’s Girl-Bachelor series. Historical romance released by Avon 26 Sep 08 Lawson’s review of Secret Desires of a Gentleman (Girl-Bachelors, Book 3) by Laura Lee Guhrke ![]()
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