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Title: The Secrets of the Heart
Harlequin Enterprises
Item Number: 9780373772728
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Product Description: The Secrets of the Heart
Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780373772728
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Rating: 2.5/5 based on 2 Reviews
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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)
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Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross
Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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María Del Consuelo Molina
reviewed The Secrets of the Heart on August 17, 2018Lord, Baron Christian St. Clair was 6 ft. 3, blonde and single. He as soon was part of the ton when he was old enough he spoke up in Parliament about the state of the poor in England. He was ridiculed and left the country for a few years. He returned a different person. This time around he dressed in bright colors and acted like he didn't have a care in the world. He was accepted by the ton and was very popular. People copied his dress and asked his opinion on lots of things. If he didn't like a play, the play failed. Christian enjoyed his popularity immensely. He still few for the poor people and behind the people's backs he did whatever he could to help them. He felt he was getting further by using action this time rather than words.
Christian was known as 'The Peacock'. He visited the owners of mills and employers of the labor class of people. He forced them to not hire children and raise their wages while insisting on reducing their work hours. There was one in particular that he was currently pestering. He burned Symington's house down and when that didn't work for this mill owner, he snuck into his house and took him outside naked. He tied him up to a fountain in the town's square. It was an overnight trip and no one suspected him.
Gabrielle Laurence had red hair and St. Clair's attention to her had made her popular this Season. She was in London trying to find a rich husband in order to keep her property. Her father gambled what little he had and Gabrielle needed money to try and hold on to what he had left her. She was waiting for him to sell her home and she wouldn't have anyplace to go should that happen. She had brought her friend Elizabeth to stay with her.
Gabrielle and St. Clair often argued. She insisted that she hated him but felt funny inside when he was around. She didn't know what that meant. She thought that St. Clair disliked her too and was surprised when others mentioned that he might be falling for her. She tried not to think about it but realized that she might be falling in love with him. He had already realized that he might be in love with her and was doing his best to forget about her. Gabrielle might just be his downfall should they get too close.
Gabrielle was getting to know St. Clair through their conversations. She guessed that he might be smarter than he let on. She made references to him being 'The Peacock' not realizing that just how accurate she was. St. Clair's friends were getting worried about Christian, Kit, getting to close to getting himself caught. They felt that Christian was enjoying the attention he was getting by the ton to stop what he was doing. They didn't want him to lose sight of the cause he was pursuing.
Kit was good at planning out how to do things and thinking on his feet. He and his three friends rescued a man blamed for setting the fire to Symington's house. He got his information from a mill worker's wife, Sal. Her husband had been smashed in a mill accident and the owners didn't pay his wife for her loss. She was even sent a bill for the loss of the carpet that he had died on. Kit had to set up a rescue for her too.
Christian realized that he had to throw Gabrielle off his trail so he arranged to kidnap her while she thought she was being brought to meet 'Peacock'. Christian didn't realize that she was certain it was him in part due to when they left his home heading out to the country, his butler gave away his secret. Gabrielle was watching as he pointed to Christian's coat and held up a peacock feather.
Kit invited Gabrielle for a ride the day before he took her and Elizabeth went along as a chaperone. Elizabeth was walking by herself giving Kit and Gabrielle time to talk when she came upon a poor family. Elizabeth purchased a 6 yr old Lily from her parents. The evening that Kit had arranged to take Gabrielle away with him, he invited her to dinner and they three women showed up. One of Kit's friends, George Trumble, had also been invited saying he wanted to meet Elizabeth. He had heard what she had done in saving the young girl and wanted to meet her.
They met and Kit arranged for George, Elizabeth and Lily to eat in a separate room while he convinced Gabrielle to go with him in order for her to meet 'the Peacock'. She saw Frapple's message and wondered how long Christian was going to pretend that the peacock was someone else. Gabrielle had told Kit that she wanted to help the peacock on one of his adventures and went along with the pretense. He was trying to scare her off and found that she could cook and clean. He realized that there was more to Gabrielle than being wealthy. George had mentioned that she wasn't just a rich girl like most of the ton members.
Kit found out that Sal had been arrested and he needed Gabrielle's help to get her out of jail. He didn't want too but he felt like he was out of options. He dressed her as a whore and she got the jailer with the key away from the building so that the peacock could get the key and get to Sal. The poor of the community were determined to storm Symington's townhouse because he refused to treat them as the peacock had instructed. Kit didn't want any bloodshed so he set up an explosion to take place thus destroying the townhouse. The town's members couldn't storm the house now so Symington wouldn't get hurt. He and another member of the ton, Lord Buxley, were having dinner in the house but the servants had all been warned and had left the property. Gabrielle, dressed as a whore, ran into and knocked Lord Buxley down when she saw him headed for the jail building with a weapon. This allowed Christian time to get away safely while grabbing her on his way. He passed Sal off to his friends to take her safely away while he headed back to the cabin with Gabrielle. She had noticed one of the men dressed up as the peacock while they were on their adventure. She also noticed that he had trouble mounting and dismounting from his horse. It was Kit's butler, Frapple.
They went back to the cabin and Gabrielle insisted that she needed a bath. They had to go to a nearby pond. Kit knew it was going to be difficult to be with Gabrielle while she bathed and them both being alone without clothes. She told him that she couldn't swim. She knew he was watching her after she told him not to and went under the water. He came to her rescue to find out that she had planned it that way. They ended up kissing and made love on the bank that night. She insisted he admitted to being the peacock and telling her that he loved her. She admitted that she was in love with him too.
They were together for a few more days and had been invited to dine at Lord Buxley's. They spoke about getting married and he told her that there was no way she was getting out of that taking place and soon. They were worried that Lord Buxley might recognize her but Christian told her that he had plans to distract him.
Gabrielle told Kit that she had enough adventure after the rescue to last her for a lifetime and Kit knew that he was also through being 'The Peacock'. He didn't want anyone to get hurt and it was getting to dangerous. He felt that if he were to continue, lives would be lost and that wasn't what he wanted.
They were preparing to go to Lord Buxley's for dinner when Elizabeth and Gabrielle talked. Elizabeth told her that George had bought the three mills owned by Symington and he would be running them. Her and George were going to be married and they were going to try and find Lily's brothers and sisters to bring them into their house. Gabrielle told Elizabeth that she was going to be marrying Christian. They then left for dinner telling Frapple to prepare dinner for them because they would be back within two hours.
They went to dinner and after some time, Lord Buxley brought up the fact that Gabrielle had been seen in Little Pillington on the night that Sal escaped. Christian announced to Ariana that her father also owned mills and told him she was ashamed of him. Christian went on to explain that Lord Buxley was there on the pretense of arresting Sal and finding the peacock when he himself was 'The Peacock'. Anthony protested by the costume the peacock wore was in his bedroom and there was also the clothes worn by Gabrielle that night along with a red haired wig. Kit told everyone that Buxley was the peacock and Ariana had helped him. The clothes were all the proof they needed. Ariana was shocked but knew there was no way out. Kit told them that they needed to elope and head maybe to America to live out the rest of their lives. Ariana's father would never take her back in for fear of others finding out about the mills. He was also forced to resign from the government for fear that Kit would tell others. Kit was going back to Parliament as a member.
Elizabeth passed out and missed most of the conversation as Kit twisted the truth to make Buxley and Ariana appear to be lovers working together. They all had a good laugh while they headed back to Christian's home for dinner.
They were heading upstairs when Gabrielle mentioned to Frapple that she would send some liniment delivered to him for his soreness from riding as the peacock that night. Kit was surprised to learn that Gabrielle had known it was him pretending to be the peacock. He asked her how long she had known who the peacock was. She assured him that she knew before they first slept together.
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