The Perfect Kiss

by Anne Gracie

Berkley Pub Group (Sensation)

Historical Romance

January 2, 2007

ISBN-13: 0425213455

Available in: Paperback

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The Perfect Kiss
by Anne Gracie

To rescue her friend . . .

In three years on the marriage mart Grace Merridew has never met a man whose kiss stirred her senses. So she makes plans for a life of adventure instead—to see the moon rise over the pyramids of Egypt and dance amid the marble ruins of Greece. But first she has to help a friend...

. . . she must enter the lair of the Wolfe.

Grace's timid friend is being forced to marry Dominic Wolfe, who stands to inherit a huge estate when he weds her. The Wolfes have a terrible reputation, and if there's one thing Grace cannot stand, it's a girl being bullied. When her friend begs for help to escape the marriage, Grace agrees to act the plain and mousy chaperone on their visit to the groom-to-be. But when they arrive nothing is as they expect, and Grace soon finds herself being pursued by a big bad Wolfe—with strictly dishonourable intentions...

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Anne Gracie's Bio

Anne Gracie was born in Australia, but lived in Scotland, Greece and Malaysia, as well as different parts of Australia, because of her Dad's job. The moving taught her a) that it's horrible being "the new girl" b) that the world is a pretty terrific place and c) that moving teaches you to be good at accents.

Anne's first job was in a dog and cat boarding kennels, where she soon realized the job was not playing with the animals, but scooping up lots of you-know-what. She's also a whizz at giving pills to cats. A voluntary job teaching women with little kids English in their home made her decide to become a teacher and she's done it ever since, with bouts of traveling in between.

From her family she inherited a love of books and story- telling, a deep romantic streak (her great-grandfather wooed her great-grandmother with poetry and horses), a love of music and a penchant for keeping honeybees.

One year while traveling Anne started writing a story (very badly) in a series of notebooks. That story never got published, but the writing bug had bitten hard and she kept trying. Her first published book was a Rita finalist, and she recently won the National Readers Choice Award and the Australian Category Romance Book of the Year.