Annabella's Diamond

the long version

HOW BLIND CAN LOVE BE? — Lady Annabella Faire's shyness had made her a wallflower all through her first Season. Now she must endure another. This time, though, her lifelong neighbor and country friend -- the astonishingly handsome and accomplished Duke of Derrinham, known to the ton as The Diamond -- was determined to make the young bucks perceive her charms. Even if it meant his own return to a London house filled with haunting memories. Enlivened by The Diamond's company at every modish affair, Bella was soon piercing gentlemen's hearts by the score. But, in his zeal to find her a husband, the duke had overlooked something: the fact that her merry chocolate eyes and sweet smile had long owned his heart. And that it required only one kiss to possess hers..