From USA Today Bestselling Author Christy Carlyle, a Victorian historical romance about a debutante fleeing a forced marriage, the viscount sent to drag her home, and a stolen night that neither of them can leave buried.
Philippa Morgan is done being the biddable debutante. When her craven brother tries to sell her into marriage to a man nearly forty years her senior to restore the family's fortune, she sees only one road to freedom: flee to Brighton. She trades the ballrooms of Mayfair for the salt air of the coast, determined to guard her dream of marrying for love—even if it costs her home and family.
What she never anticipated was that the man sent to fetch her back would be Atlas Ballentine, Viscount Stonefield—the very man who shattered her heart just two months before, after a stolen night in his garden. Now, weighed down by his own family's ruin, Atlas faces his own pressure to marry without love. And when fate throws them together again, the feelings they both tried to bury flare right back to life, leaving them to choose between the lives others have arranged for them and a scandalous love that refuses to be tamed.
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