As Aphrodite, Caroline attends a masque determined to find a man to initiate her into the intimacies of erotic love. This, her last night of freedom, is to be a memory of lust that she can take with her throughout her loveless marriage. Caroline refuses to allow her first taste of desire to be at the hands of a man who would rather have any woman but her. Upon his death, Lady Caroline Wilmont is promised to the younger brother. When London’s most notorious rakehell breaks into Eve’s bedroom in the dead of night and compromises her beyond repair, she plans a daring elopement that shocks even the earl.Ī proper young lady should never attend a Masque.Aphrodite is no lady.īetrothal to the callous Lord Blackhall painted a future devoid of love. Miss Eve Crenshaw will marry for love or won’t marry at all. No gentleman breaks into a lady’s bedchamber.but then, no lady sleeps with a pistol under her pillow. Groomed for a life amongst the English aristocracy, Lord Erroll Rushton is unexpectedly thrust back into his father’s Scottish world when the Englishwoman he compromises refuses to marry him. When a man steals a bride from holy ground, he must expect war…Ī man torn between two worlds. If they are to have a future, Iain must face the past…and make the ultimate sacrifice: Victoria. Iain MacPherson swore he was nothing like his father, but his kidnapping of Victoria is the first step toward the same obsessive jealousy that sent his mother to an early grave. Freedom carries a heavy price, as Victoria Hockley learns when she flees England.
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