If You Deceive (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Ethan MacCarrick: "Eighth Earl of Kavanagh" - "Ethan Ross MacCarrick" - "Laird of Clan MacCarrick" - Thirty-three years old; Spy working for the Network; Six and a half feet tall with broad, muscular shoulders; Has thick, straight jet black hair and black eyes with flecks of amber
• Madeleine Van Rowen: "Maddy" - "Madeleine Isobel Van Rowen" - "Maddée" - "Maddy Anglaise" - "Maddy la Gamine" - A short blonde with brilliant blue eyes; Twenty-one years old; Five foot three
• Hugh MacCarrick: Ethan's younger brother; An assassin in the Network; Jane's husband
• Jane Weyland: "Jane MacCarrick" - "Sìne" - Weyland's fair daughter; Madeleine's friend; Leader of the Weyland Eight; Claudia & Belinda's cousin; Hugh's wife
• Courtland MacCarrick: Ethan's youngest brother; A mercenary; Annalía's husband
• Annalía Llorente: "Annalía MacCarrick" - Courtland's pregnant wife; Has royal Spanish blood
• Edward Weyland: Ethan and Hugh's superior; Jane's father; Hugh's father-in-law
• Quinton Weyland: "Quin" - Weyland's nephew; Being groomed to take over Weyland's role in the Network; Has curling hair and laughing green eyes
• Claudia Weyland: Quinton's younger sister; Madeleine's childhood friend; One of the Weyland Eight; Belinda's sister; Jane's cousin
• Belinda Weyland: Quinton's younger sister; A tall brunette; Madeleine's friend; One of the Weyland Eight; Claudia's sister; Jane's cousin
• Leith MacCarrick: Ethan's father
• Fiona MacCarrick: "Lady Fiona" - Ethan's mother; A pretty red-haired lady
• Sarah MacReedy: Ethan's fiancée; Rumored to have been pushed of the roof at Carrickliffe by Ethan the night before the wedding
• Arthur MacReedy: Sarah's father
• MacReedy Jr.: Sarah's brother
• Mrs. MacReedy: Sarah's mother
• Corrine: Madeline's friend; Fellow Englishwoman; Like a mother to Madeline; A tall, gray-haired woman
• Beatrix: "Bea" - "Bea the Whore" - "Blue-Eyed Bea" - Has beautiful blue eyes; A prostitute; One of Maddy's dearest friends in Paris
• Aleixandre Llorente: "Aleix" - Annalía's brother; Courtland's brother-in-law
• Aleixandre MacCarrick: "Aleix" - Courtland & Annalía's newborn son
• Niall MacCarrick: One of Ethan's favorite wild cousins
• Cigarette: Young girl that sells cigarettes
• Owena Dekindeeren: Twenty year old Welshwoman; Married to a Belgian businessman; Mother of two
• Neville Dekindeeren: Owena's husband
• Sorcha: Carillon's housekeeper
• Mr. Barnaby: Registrar in the village near Carillon; A kindly older Scot
• Agnes Hallee: A widow who lives down the coast from Carillon; Mother of six
• Silas: Carillon's steward; A middle-aged man
• Comte Le Daex: An obscenely wealthy roué, three times Madeleine's age; Has survived three of his previous young wives; Wants to marry Madeleine
• Sylvie Van Rowen: Tall, voluptuous and dark-haired French woman; Madeleine's mother
• Geoffrey Van Rowen: Madeleine's father; Gray-haired Englishman
• Flora: Sylvie's maid
• Brymer: A blond giant; One of Van Rowen's henchmen
• Tully: A tall, burly man; One of Van Rowen's henchmen
• Davis Grey: Ethan's onetime compatriot and family friend; Opium addict; Former Network assassin; Was Hugh's friend and mentor
• Odette Crenate: Madeline's nemeses; Berthé's sister
• Berthé Crenate: Madeline's nemesis; Odette's sister
• Maurice: Man Beatrix is in love with; Beats on Beatrix
• Guillaume: Madeline's stepfather
• Toumard: French loan shark & pimp
• Chat Noir: Stray black cat that lives on Madeline's balcony in Paris
• Petit Chat Noir: A black tom kitten

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• “The love of a good woman? To save a wicked man like me? Never…because theres no woman born whos as good as I am bad.”

  Ethan MacCarrick

• “I didnt steal it - I swear! Oh, as if things never fall into your pocket!”

  Madeleine Van Rowen

• “If I’m to be our moral guide, we’re both hell bound, lass.” She gazed up at him, lips curling. “But at least we’d be together.”

  Ethan and Madeline

• “What do you think I’ll have to defend against? Scallops? Seaweed? Shells! Always the damned shells.”

  Madeleine Van Rowen

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• L’audace fait les reines. Audacity makes queens.

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• de mal en pire — “from bad to worse.”

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• Ethan’s father had once told him that a man would know the woman he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.

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• “As if I need to. Winning against the passengers is as challenging as hunting cows.”

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• She’d batted her eyelashes as she asked, “Ethan, would you lay down your life to protect me if a cow had me cornered?” “Aye” — he’d resumed reading — “I’d smite the bovine down.”

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• “Bullshite. I doona have to jump off a bloody bridge to understand the landing will prove disagreeable.”

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• “Yes, practiced. That kiss to the wrist is a perfect communication. The brush of your lips demonstrates that you’d be gentle and sensual in bed. The firm hold on my hand as you placed it indicates that you’d be masterful at the same time.”

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• “Le coup de foudre,” Bea said, nodding enthusiastically. “Love at first sight?”

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• “You canna do this — take my goddamned heart and then leave me! You think I will no’ follow?”

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• He stared down at her, silently offering his big hand. His eyes were dark — and she’d never seen such intensity. She inhaled a shaky breath. Le coup de foudre.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Iveley Hall: in Buxton; Spring 1846
• Buxton, England
• London, England: Summer 1856
• Portugal
• The Hive: A warehouse converted into an unlicensed dance hall in London
• Paris, France
• St. Roch: Parisian parish
• La Marais: Slum in Paris
• Grosvenor Square: Part of London where the MacCarrick home is located
• Carrickliffe, Scotland
• Dover, England
• Calais, France
• Montmartre: in Paris
• Lake District: in England
• Ros Creag: Ethan's lake house in England
• Beinn a’Chaorainn: Courtland's ramshackle estate in Scotland
• The Silken Purse: Tavern in Montmartre
• Carillon: Ethan's oceanfront mansion

Organizations edit see section history

• The Network: One of the Crown's clandestine organizations
• Weyland Eight: Society's notorious Weyland Eight consisted of Quin's two sisters and his six female first cousins

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• Leabhar nan Sùil-radharc: The Book of Fates

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by If You Desire.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kresley Cole (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2693 vol. 12
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexual content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Cole, Kresley
• Books › Romance › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Kresley Cole's Website

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