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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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Secret at Dark Castle by Karen Dean Benson

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Also by Karen Dean Benson:

A Break in the Clouds, December 2021
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Come Here To Me, October 2020
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Secret at Dark Castle, June 2020
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Mulberry Bend, December 2016
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From Florida With Love, August 2016
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From Florida With Love, June 2014
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SECRET AT DARK CASTLE
By: Karen Dean Benson

Prickly Hawthorn Village #1
Satin Romance
June 2020
On Sale: June 1, 2020
ISBN: 1680468901
EAN: 9781680468908
Kindle: B08943RBZ9
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Romance Historical

A secret no one dared whisper...

1816 County Waterford, Hawthorn Village, Ireland

Mairéad, left in a basket on the steps of The Sacred Heart Convent and raised by the nuns, intends to take vows in the fall when she turns eighteen. Having lived her life within the cloister, she knows nothing of the secular world except for the dealings she has had with people who bring their manuscripts to be illuminated. Her delicate artistry is a source of income for the convent.

A local aristocrat, Lord Darnley, willing to pay a vast amount for work on his manuscript, demands she stay at Rockmore Hall for the summer to illuminate a book he wrote about his ancestors.
Conflicted about leaving the convent for the first time, Mairéad experiences a life she’s never known. Being on the outside of cloistered walls overwhelms her. She witnesses the power of family, the fierce loyalty, and the bad blood that rises from time to time.

Cast into the center of their lives, Mairéad is aware of what she does not have, family. And, she begins to question her identity. Her awareness of the problems in the Darnley household has her questioning what she might find in her own family. Would it be happiness, or heartache?

She almost convinces herself wishing can be a dangerous thing.

Prickly Hawthorn Village

Secret at Dark Castle
SECRET AT DARK CASTLE
#1.0 β€’ June 2020
Come Here To Me
COME HERE TO ME
#2.0 β€’ October 2020
A Break in the Clouds
A BREAK IN THE CLOUDS
#3.0 β€’ December 2021

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