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An alluring, outpsoken widow and an enigmatic agent are drawn into a web of power, greed, and ambition that threatens to overturn the very future of the British Empire.
Brava
April 2009
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Featuring: Lilly Clarence Hampton; Julian St. Martin
352 pages ISBN: 0758223692 EAN: 9780758223692 Paperback
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Suspense | Romance Historical
London, 1851. An alluring, outspoken widow and an enigmatic
agent are drawn into a web of power, greed, and ambition
that threatens to overturn the very future of the British
Empire… Society knows Lilly Clarence Hampton as a respected widow
who was wildly in love with her husband, the architect of
London’s famed Crystal Palace. The truth…well, the truth
would cost Lilly her reputation, her freedom, and quite
possibly her life. And one man has uncovered it—the
reclusive, savagely handsome Julian St. Martin. A former agent of the Crown, Julian intends to blackmail
Lilly to obtain plans to the Palace, where the
Koh-I-Noor—the largest diamond in the world—will be
presented to Queen Victoria at the Great Exhibition. Men
have committed all manner of crimes to possess the fabled
gem, but Julian’s intentions are even darker. And the closer
he gets to the beguiling Lilly, the more complicated matters
become. Succumbing to intense, primal desire, Julian and Lilly both
become pawns in a wicked game where no one can be tru
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