Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Romance & Sagas
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When Miss Decima Wells sets out in May 1836 to see the astonishing sight of four giraffes walking from London Docks to the newly created Zoological Gardens, she has no idea that her innocent expedition will have such dangerous and far-reaching consequences. Nor does Alexander Peverell, also there to see the spectacle. Newly returned from India, where he has made his fortune, he is concerned only with his father's failing health and his brother Hugh's activities.Hugh is desperately short of money, but would he go so far as becoming involved with the criminal underworld? Matters are not helped by Decima's father, who seeks to entrap Alexander as a husband for his daughter . . .
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