Casting Samson (20 page)

Melinda Hammond is a storyteller and as a teenager she fell in love with history and romantic adventures. She has published more than twenty books, mainly set in the Georgian and Regency periods, and in 2010 her Harlequin historical book
The Earl’s Runaway Bride,
written under pseudonym Sarah Mallory, won a coveted Cataromance Reviewers’ Choice Award. Melinda lives in an old farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors, where she finds inspiration in the wild and desolate landscape.

ISBN: 978-1-4268-9245-5

Copyright © 2011 by Melinda Hammond

All rights reserved. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher, Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 225 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3B 3K9.

All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the author and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names. They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure invention.

This edition published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.

® and
^™
are trademarks of the publisher. Trademarks indicated with ® are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Canadian Trade Marks Office and in other countries.

www.CarinaPress.com