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    The Vicar's Virgin
    The Vicar's Virgin
    The Vicar's Virgin
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    The Vicar's Virgin

    By Berengaria Brown

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    The Reverend Mr. Ridley needs a wife, so he focuses his attention on Georgina Arnott, a sensible, intelligent, and attractive woman.

    On their wedding night, he is relieved to discover his virgin enjoys the pleasures of the bed, and after a slow start, their evenings are full of passion.

    Unfortunately, when she takes an interest in his parish, it seems to involve filling his house with noisy people and children. He loves his new wife, but can their marriage withstand the test of time?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEvernight Publishing
    Release dateNov 25, 2011
    ISBN9781927368138
    The Vicar's Virgin
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    Berengaria Brown

    Berengaria is a multi-published author of erotic romance: contemporary, paranormal (ghosts, vampires, fairies and werewolves) and Regency-set historical. She loves to read all different kinds of romance so that is what she writes: one man/one woman; two women; two men; two men/one woman; three men, two women/one man.... Whatever the characters need for their very hot happily-ever-after, Berengaria makes sure they get it.

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      The Vicar's Virgin - Berengaria Brown

      Published by Evernight Publishing at Smashwords

      http://www.evernightpublishing.com

      Copyright© 2011 Berengaria Brown

      ISBN: 978-1-927368-13-8

      Cover Artist: Jinger Heaston

      Editor: Kimberly Bowman

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      DEDICATION

      For Georgette Heyer who gave me an enduring love of Regency romance.

      THE VICAR'S VIRGIN

      Virgins No More, 1

      Berengaria Brown

      Copyright © 2011

      Chapter One

      The Reverend Mr. Barnabas Ridley stepped down from his carriage, nodded his thanks to his groom, settled his top hat on his shiny black hair, and said, Now, David. Make sure you’re back here to meet me in exactly half an hour. My mother may have browbeaten me into making this morning call, but not even for her will I stay one second past the proper half hour.

      The elderly retainer’s eyes sparkled with suppressed laughter, but his voice was suitably respectful. Of course, sir. Half an hour it is, sir.

      Barnabas climbed the steps to the front door of the smart townhouse, touched his hat again to reassure himself all was at it should be, then raised his hand to knock.

      The butler had evidently seen or heard his approach for the door opened before he could grasp the knocker and he was ushered into the hallway.

      The Dowager Lady Arnott is expecting you, sir, the butler said, tenderly laying Barnabas’s gloves, cane, and hat on the hall table before helping him out of his greatcoat.

      Barnabas followed him toward the door of the morning room, mentally noting that in at least one aspect his mama had been correct. Old Mrs. Arnott did seem to require use of the courtesy title she no longer held. Well, it would be a small price to pay to flatter the old biddy if she agreed to take Theodora to some Ton parties along with her two granddaughters. And as for his mama’s plan that he marry the eldest granddaughter, Georgina, that would depend on whether or not she was an appropriate wife for a man of the cloth.

      The butler opened the door and announced sonorously, The Rev—

      A thunderous crash split the air, followed by a moment of total silence, then hysterical screaming. Barnabas swung around facing the hallway, looking right and left for whatever danger approached.

      A young woman jumped up from her chair by the fire and hurried out into the hallway, which was becoming crowded as people arrived from every direction. A housekeeper, several maids and footmen all talking at once, a young man dressed in the height of fashion, a stunningly beautiful young blonde woman, a small girl, and two boys hotly pursued by a fat cook waving a carving knife.

      The boys ran to the front door, which the little girl had just opened, and disappeared down the steps, the cook still running after them.

      Barnabas wasn’t sure what he’d just seen but could only assume this was not an auspicious time for a morning visit. Silently he picked up his greatcoat, gloves, and cane, slapped his hat on his head, and departed.

      ****

      Two days ago

      Barnabas, darling son, come and sit with me for a while, please.

      Trying to turn me up sweet, Mama? You should know that treacle tone in your voice is more likely to make me run away than come closer, Barnabas replied, flicking his coattails up and sitting carefully on one of the ridiculously spindle-legged chairs in his mama’s drawing room.

      But his mama refused to be drawn, merely waiting until he was seated before saying, "It’s more than a month past since you agreed to look seriously for a bride. Dear Theodora is turned eighteen, and you did not receive a single offer for her hand when I brought her out last season. Her dowry is adequate, she’s pretty enough, and our lineage is noble, but she needs invitations to Ton events that are out of my reach. Married to the right woman, you could chaperone her to the finest events of the season."

      Yes, Mama, I’m well aware of the facts. I also acknowledge that at five and twenty years of age it’s time I married and set up my nursery. But my wife will have many duties here in the parish, so she must be both competent and caring yet able to see through sham. Not a young miss fresh from the school room, or some female only interested in parties and fripperies.

      What about Lady Mary Featherby?

      She seems to be set upon a title. I believe she may have hopes of bringing The Earl of Mitcham up to scratch. My birth is good enough, as you said, but Father was the third son and I am a mere vicar.

      Georgina Arnott then. She’s both pretty and intelligent, and the Dowager will want to marry her off with Sapphira about to make her come-out. Her parents dying so suddenly has not only put her firmly on the shelf, but she has assisted her brother and the Dowager in the rearing of her little brothers and sisters.

      Well…

      "You should pay a morning call on the Dowager Lady Arnott and ask her to take Theodora under her wing. Theodora will be no trouble as the old lady is already chaperoning both Georgina and Sapphira to all the Ton parties. That will give you the opportunity to get to know Georgina better to see if

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