A Secret Life: 1 (Lord Hawkesbury's Players)

Minerva Peabody needs a man. Unfortunately she picked the wrong one. The impoverished playwright has a dream to see her plays performed on stage but in Elizabethan England not only are women considered the inferior sex they simply do NOT write plays. Faced with rejection after rejection she decides to take one more chance with the most desperate theater manager in London only this time shell use the cover of a man. Sucked in by a pair of bright blue eyes and impressive shoulders she chooses Blake out of the crowd never thinking hell actually play an active role in her ruse. But when he does he gets under her skin in the most alarming way.Privateer (dont call him a pirate to his face) Robert Blakewell accepted Mins proposal to give him a cover while he searched for the cur who got his sister with child. But when his mission threatens to destroy Mins fledgling career he must make a choice: protect his family or the woman he has grown to love. Either choice will see him lose something precious.A SECRET LIFE is a romp through Elizabethan England and features cameo appearances from William Shakespeare. Previously titled Her Secret Desire.