But after narrowly escaping the wrath of her partner in crime, she finds herself at Paddington Station with nothing but the gown she’s wearing and another woman s train ticket clutched in her hand.
Letty Potts, a petty schemer by necessity, has decided to go straight. With the dazzling storytelling that has become her trademark, acclaimed author Connie Brockway sweeps readers to Victorian England a glittering world of titled society and scandalous secrets in the enchanting tale of a woman who commits the most startling indiscretion of all: She falls in love. Watch for the next two books in the breathtakingly romantic McClairen’s Isle trilogy, The Reckless One and The Ravishing One, coming soon from Dell. But he didn’t expect the passions she would ignite in his own wary heart. Ash suspected that his father intended to make the innocent beauty his fourth wife. But family secrets forced Ashton Merrick to do his ruthless father’s bidding and escort Rhiannon Russell back to McClairen’s Isle. He was a notorious rogue with a reputation for hell raising and heartbreaking.
Raine, the second son, is the reckless one. And there each would find a love as wild and glorious as the Highland isle they claimed as their own.įia, the only daughter, is the ravishing one. English by birth, they came to Scotland with their father to occupy McClairen lands. They are the Merricks, two brothers and a sister, restless, daring, proud.
What could be more complicated?īut when unwilling attraction gives way to sizzling passion, both will be forced to confront the ages-old question of whether love trumps honor.or the other way around.No woman could resist the pleasures he offered… Losing the great-aunts en route, the handsome, buttoned-down professor finds himself caught up in Lucy's quirky, bewildering, and probably illegal efforts to reunite with them, as he is drawn further and further into an inexplicable infatuation with the free-spirited singer. When his grandfather asks him as a matter of honor to escort his old love on the journey, the about-to-be married professor agrees, not expecting Lucy to be part of the bargain. Professor Ptolemy Archibald Grant is the brilliant, straitlaced grandson of a British lord who also withstood the siege. All Lucy and her great-aunts have to do is travel to a small Pyrenees town to claim Lavinia's share of a fabulous treasure in rubies. Though struggling to maintain her beloved great-aunts' household, she holds fast to the belief that "things will work out." Now, with the fiftieth anniversary of a siege her great-aunt Lavinia lived through approaching, it looks like Lucy is right, because a fortune is due to be divided among the survivors. Effervescent bon vivant Lucy Eastlake is a young operetta singer whose star is on the rise in Edwardian London.
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