Avon
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Featuring: Catriona Cameron; Mark Thorburn
384 pages ISBN: 0062027808 EAN: 9780062027801 Kindle: B009G55X52 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Catriona Cameron has been sent to live in Edinburgh to learn how to be an earlโs sister-in-law. Her lover, the man she rebuffed, is incensed at her popularity in London, and attempts to kill her. Severely scarred from the accident, Catriona retreats to Edinburgh and her three rooms, there to heal and come to grips with the change in her life.
Dina MacTavish, having been responsible for Catriona, is now concerned that sheโs willing herself to die. She calls in Dr. Mark Thorburn, who agrees to treat Catriona. Since she has such an aversion to doctors (due to her treatment in London), he pretends to be a footman.
They have a love affair, interrupted by a fire that Mark thinks isnโt an accident. He begins to investigate, certain that Catriona knows something sheโs not telling. She believes that Andrew is still after her. After a third attempt on her life, she discovers that Mark isnโt just a penurious doctor, but the heir to an earldom. She realizes that the Catriona she is now could never be his wife, and retreats once more to her rooms. Along the way to that realization, she changes in character, becoming kinder and more compassionate. One of those acts of kindness makes Mark know for certain that sheโs not the girl heโd once known.
Happy ending, of course, when Mark once again becomes a footman, refusing to leave until she agrees to marry him.
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