Lady Honoria Carlow, leading Diamond of the Ton, is in disgrace. Her spirited nature has led her too far this time and she is, in reputation at least, ruined.
Indifferent to polite London society, Captain Gabriel Hawksworth is a gentleman in bandit's clothing. On the storm-tossed coast of Cornwall, this smuggler is reckless, sexy and sinfully temptingโฆ.
Gabriel is luring Honoria right back to what she's escapingโtrouble! Only this time her impropriety won't be quite so innocentโฆ
Author Note
โIt isnโt fair!โ I think everyone, from children old enough to say the words to octogenarians, can identify with the outrage and disappointment of experiencing something that just isnโt fair. Even learning as we grow older that very often life isnโt โfairโ doesnโt much reduce the intensity of the reaction.
After the co-authors finished brainstorming the themes and characters for our eight-book miniseries REGENCY SILK & SCANDAL, we got to pick the character we wanted to write. I was drawn to the story of Lady Honoria Carlow, an innocent who is targeted for destruction by the revenge character in retaliation for the destruction of his innocent life by the original scandal.
After a shocking disgrace, Honoria flees to Cornwall, anxious to distance herself as far as possible from London and the family who didnโt believe in her innocence. Always the rebellious sort, sheโs skirted the edge of what is considered respectable behavior for a virtuous ton maiden, but the ruin visited upon her, coming about through no fault of her own, isnโt fair. After taking shelter with an aunt in the small village of Sennlach, she encounters dashing local smuggler Gabe Hawkhurst. With her future destroyed and her life in a shambles, the last thing this earlโs daughter needs is to find herself beguiled by a low-born free-trader known as โThe Hawk.โ
Once hero Gabe Hawkhurst, whoโs in Cornwall temporarily captaining a smuggling vessel for the army friend who saved his life, charms a reluctant Honoria into confiding her story, itโs his sense that sheโs been unfairly treated that prompts him to try to discover who targeted her and why. As they work together, the attraction that has drawn them together from the first intensifies, until a friendship that should never have been becomes a compulsion too powerful to deny.
I hope youโll enjoy Gabeโs quest, Honoriaโs vindication and the triumph of their unlikely love!
This is a season of secrets, scandal and seduction in high
society! Set in Regency England, this continuity sweeps you
from glittering ballrooms, to a smuggler's cove in Cornwall,
to the wilds of Scotland, a Romany camp, and back again.
Each story has a passionate, intense, central relationship
but the thread linking them together is a darkly dangerous,
yet sexy stranger, who is out for revenge, delivering a
silken rope as his calling card. Through him, a
long-forgotten past is stirred to life, and the notorious
events of 1794 which saw one man murdered and another hanged
for the crime, are brought in to question. Was the right man
brought to justice or is there still a treacherous murderer
at large?
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