The Factory Girl

      The Factory Girl
Nancy Carson

Литагент HarperCollins

The Factory Girl

NANCY CARSON

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Previously published as The Love Match by Hodder and Stoughton 2002

Copyright © Nancy Carson 2015

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Ebook Edition © May 2015 ISBN: 9780008134822

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Contents

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Chapter 1 (#u36d0df9d-4e97-53e0-81f1-6bd040f6e82e)

The moment Henzey Kite’s clear blue eyes alighted on him she regretted it. Never in her young life had she seen a man so immaculate, so handsome, so desirable. His eyes, when he smiled, made her legs wobble like aspic. He oozed a calm self-assurance and a dangerous allure that compelled her heart and soul to sing out to him as wilfully as a nightingale calls its mate through bluebell woods. But he heard not her heart’s call. In any case, he was unattainable – as unattainable as the moon. Yet having seen him, no one else would do; and therein lay her regret.

The girl at his side matched him perfectly. She was strikingly beautiful. Henzey had spotted her once before, a week ago, on the evening she had first met Andrew. She was called Nellie, and she was Andrew’s sister; but Andrew had not introduced them. Everything about Nellie was exquisite, especially her dark hair, which was impeccably styled and framed her lovely face. Her skin was flawless, her clothes fitted to a stitch and her figure was inspiring. Yet everything about her was sublimely understated to the point of rendering her demure. Men would die for Nellie Dewsbury. She stood out like a fine cut diamond in a tray of gaudy baubles.