Kate Taylor has grown up alone. She doesn’t remember her
parents and anonymous benefactors paid for her education
at a respectable school. She has now the resident music
tutor for young gently-bred ladies in the seaside village
of Spindle Cove.
For the past year, Corporal Samuel Thorne has been living
in small village, hiding a very big secret. The first time
he heard Miss Kate Taylor singing in the tea shop, he was
instantly enchanted. The moment she turned her profile and
revealed a birthmark, he recognized her from his youth.
They spent their early years in the same London brothel,
where their mothers were prostitutes.
Desperate to hide her past from her, Thorne keeps Kate at
a distance, while secretly pining for her. That is until
one day he is bitten by an adder (while trying to save
Kate’s life, of course) and as she nurses him back to
health, the truth of her past come out, along with the
secret of Thornes true feelings.
As their feelings develop, Thorne and Kate are ready to
marry. Until one day the real truth about Kate’s family
comes out. Not only is she legitimate, she’s titled and
rich! How will Thorne, the prostitute’s son, ever be able
to compete with the dandies of the ton? He is willing to
step back and let Kate enter the bosom of the family she
always dreamed of. But will Kate risk losing her true
heart’s desire?
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