Lady Alethea Claridge is horrified at the new owner of her neighboring manor. Col. Lord Gabriel Boscastle apparently won the estate in a card game, and she somehow doubts he will be any better at managing it than the previous owner.
Gabriel has no intentions of spending any real time at the country manor he's won. He'll be there a couple of weeks, look things over and then get rid of the property. But he meets Alethea and can't seem to pull himself away. He's intrigued by her story, that she's still mourning a fiancΓ© who went to war and never returned.
What Gabriel doesn't know -- in fact, no one does -- is that Alethea doesn't mourn her fiancΓ©. The ass forced himself upon her right before he left, destroying her innocent dreams of love. She's well rid of her fiancΓ©, yet knows she's ruined for marriage.
I'm in love with all the Boscastles. I hope Ms. Hunter doesn't plan on ending this series any time soon. Gabriel and Alethea make a fascinating couple, each carrying their sadness yet also challenging life. Together, they would make a strong team, but can they find their way to each other? You'll turn the pages to find out, and also to enjoy the beauty of a love that's born from the core of loneliness that lies in both of them.
Award-winning author Jillian Hunter has written a
deliciously sexy new novel rife with sly wit, perilous
temptation, and breathless passion.Handsome cavalry
officer Sir Gabriel Boscastle returns from Waterloo a hero,
only to resume his pursuit of forbidden pleasures in
London. There is no bet this cynical gentleman will not
takeβand no woman he cannot seduce. But when he travels to
the country manor he wins during a card game, he discovers
there is one gamble he has never risked and that he may
have met his match. His opponent and neighbor is none other
than Alethea Claridge, the only person who stood by him
during his wildest years and the only woman ever to
captivate his heart. The beautiful and solitary
Lady Alethea is seemingly still mourning for her fiancΓ©,
who died in battle. But beneath her shield of feigned
sorrow, she hides an unspeakable secretβone that could
destroy her reputation forever. So when this dark horseman
thunders back into her life one night, she is
understandably wary of him. She had defended Gabriel once
when he was a wicked boy. But now, as a beguiling man, he
makes his sensual desires well known even as he swears he
will reform. Will the irresistible scoundrel redeem himself
and restore her trust in love or ruin her completely? She
will soon have her answer as Gabriel challenges everything
she believes about love, about herself, and about what it
takes to be a hero.
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