A forbidden love and a chilling mystery tease the senses
in this sensuous historical romance from the USA
Today bestselling author of A Kiss of Lies and
A Love to Remember.
Bookish and independent Lady Helen Hawkestone is expected to
marry well. But, having grown up with warring parents, the
institution holds little appeal. The trick, she realizes, is
to marry for love—a task that’s easier said than done. Only
while Helen is raising funds for her do-gooder sister’s
orphanage does she meet a man who arouses her curiosity.
Lowborn and yet so dignified that Helen can’t help but try
to elicit a response, Clary Homeward is an enigma—a
heart-stopping, body-stirring, forget-her-social-upbringing
enigma.
A single offense against a noblewoman such as Lady Helen
would ruin a man like Clary. Her sister, Marisa, rescued him
from hellish poverty and employs him with her charity work.
Try as he might to push her away, Helen tempts him to want
things he could never have. But when girls from the
orphanage start disappearing, destined for a grim fate Clary
knows all too well, Helen insists on helping. And soon Clary
wonders whether something more were not just possible but
inevitable—even right.
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