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Book Savage Alpha  Alpha 8

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Mortimer
  • Publisher : Carole Mortimer
  • Release : 2016-03-02
  • ISBN : 1910597201
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Savage Alpha Alpha 8 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who does Lily go to for help when a fan's admiration turns to a dangerous obsession? Her four older brothers are the obvious choice, especially when they own and run Knight Security. But Lily has fought long and hard for her independence from her family, and for her career as an actress. She certainly doesn't want one of her brothers--or possibly all four of them--wading in with their usual arrogance and taking over her life again. But as the fan's obsession becomes darker, the "gifts" more bizarre, Lily knows she has no choice.The last thing Jonas Grayfeather wants is to accept a job protecting the spoilt sister of the Knight brothers. But Gabriel, the eldest brother, and the man who once saved Jonas's life, is calling in that favor, and so leaving Jonas with no choice but to at least check into whether or not Lily Knight really is being stalked. A single meeting with Lily, and Jonas knows she's going to be even more of a pain in his ass than any of her four overbearing brothers has ever been. She's outspoken, annoying, and so stubborn Jonas's first instinct is to put her over his knee, and give her the spanking she obviously should have received as a child. She's also wild and beautiful, sexy as hell, and arouses him with just a glance of those sexy green eyes. Whether they like it or not, the attraction is mutual, and the desire quickly blazes out of control between the two of them. But Lily's reckless disregard for Jonas's efforts to protect her, may result in one or both of them ending up dead. If they don't kill each other with passion first.

Book Savage Awakening

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.D. Tyler
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-04-03
  • ISBN : 1101580062
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Savage Awakening written by J.D. Tyler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of former Navy SEALS, the Alpha Pack is a top-secret team of wolf shifters with Psy powers combating the greatest dangers in the world. But sometime those dangers are more intimate than they bargained for... After a mission goes wrong, Aric Savage is taken prisoner. Half-dead and despairing, he makes a stunning discovery: his Pack mate Micah Chase, who was reported dead, is a fellow captive. When the Alpha team goes into full-rescue mode, accompanying them is an absolute stunner with sable hair--and a spine of solid steel. LAPD officer and Psy Dreamwalker Rowan Chase has one priority: her brother Micah's recovery. Still, she can't help but be drawn to Aric, the ruggedly handsome wolf shifter who pleasures her as no man ever has--however fleeting their affair is destined to be. But when Aric's life is endangered, Rowan must ask herself what she's willing to sacrifice in the name of love, for the man fated to be her Bondmate.

Book Alpha King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sara Fields
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Alpha King written by Sara Fields and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampires didn't just kill my father. They turned him into a murderer. I don't know how they did it and I don't know why, but I do know one thing. I'm going to make them pay dearly for it.

Book Capturing Caleb  Knight Security 3

Download or read book Capturing Caleb Knight Security 3 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author’s Note: The stories in the Knight Security, Alpha, and Regency Unlaced Series have stronger sexual content and language than my other books. Caleb Knight’s nephew wasn’t alone when he was kidnapped three months ago, his young Spanish nanny was with him. They have Daniel back now, but Magdalena Roig is still missing. Caleb is ex-army, and he knows what it’s like to be held prisoner and tortured, but he still lives his life by the code no one gets left behind. Whatever it takes, however long it takes, he will find Magdalena and bring her home. Lena has no idea how she’s going to escape from the island where she’s being held captive. The one thing she refuses to do is become a victim. She’s a fighter, and she’s determined to get away from the man who says she now belongs to him. No matter what she has to do, however long it takes, she will escape. When the powerful Russian, Dimitri Volkov, arrives as a guest on the island, Lena finds herself drawn to this scarred and dangerous man in a way she’s never been attracted before. Dare she trust Dimitri, when he claims not to be who she thinks he is? Or is this just a trap to ensure her compliance when her ‘owner’ orders her to share the Russian’s bed for the duration of his stay on the island?

Book The Hero  Ruthless Regency Dukes 5

Download or read book The Hero Ruthless Regency Dukes 5 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HERO (Ruthless Regency Dukes 5) is the fifth book in USA Today and Amazon International #1 Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, Regency Romance series. Six Dukes, bound together by their friendship and loyalty. When one of them is murdered, the five friends remaining are each given the task of investigating one of the five officers suspected of being responsible for the killing. Gideon Harrington, the Duke of Oxford, is the last of the five Ruthless Dukes tasked with identifying the person responsible for killing their friend, the Duke of Plymouth. Something, in view of the eccentricity of the gentleman Gideon is to investigate, he admits to having delayed for as long as possible, in the hope one of the other dukes will succeed in identifying the culprit. Unfortunately, that does not prove to be the case. Learning that his quarry, Henry Church, the Earl of Dunhill, is to attend a house party at the end of the month, Gideon secures an invitation for himself to attend that same party. He is not in the least prepared for the hoyden that is Henrietta Church, Dunhill’s daughter. A young lady who insists upon being called Harry and proves to be as eccentric as her father. Harry has never met anyone quite as disdainful and toplofty as Gideon Harrington, the Duke of Oxford. A gentleman who makes no effort to hide his disapproval of her. A gentleman she, in turn, takes great delight in tormenting because of his haughtiness. But Harry soon learns, to her complete and blushing surprise, that Oxford is hiding a very passionate and possessive nature beneath that haughty exterior. A discovery she finds irresistible. Except she has no idea of the real reason Oxford is attending the house party.

Book Bryn  Dragon Hearts 3

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Mortimer
  • Publisher : Carole Mortimer
  • Release : 2017-12-22
  • ISBN : 1910597597
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Bryn Dragon Hearts 3 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryn is the 3rd book in USA Today Bestselling and Amazon #1 author, Carole Mortimer’s, NEW paranormal series, DRAGON HEARTS. Author’s Note: Beware of very sexy alpha dragon shifters on the hunt for their fates mates! To say Brynis reluctant when his sister-in-law, Chloe, asks him to act as bodyguard to her friend, is an understatement. As a fifteen-hundred-year-old dragon shifter, very close to becoming feral, he prefers to stay as far away from humans as possible. But none of the Pendragon brothers can resist Chloe when she looks at them with those big blue eyes. Including Bryn. Tegan doesn’t know what to make of the taciturn grouch her friend Chloe has asked to accompany her to New York as her bodyguard. Yes, Tegan’s ex-boyfriend is being a creepy stalker, and she appreciates Chloe’s concern. But that doesn’t change the fact Chloe’s brother-in-law, Bryn, is rude, arrogant, and totally overbearing. He’s also hot as hell, and just being around him makes Tegan’s panties wet! Bryn can’t seem to resist her either, and it isn’t long before the passion between the two of them blazes hot and strong. Even so, Tegan senses he’s hiding something, she just has no idea what that something is. Can Bryn keep Tegan safe from her ex-boyfriend? More importantly, should Tegan really allow herself to fall in love with Bryn, a man so intensely sexual neither she nor her heart have any defences against him?

Book Wicked Scandal  Regency Sinners 3

Download or read book Wicked Scandal Regency Sinners 3 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked Scandal is the 3rd book in USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, Amazon #1 Regency Sinners series. Author’s Note: All the books in the very sexy Regency Sinners series are complete and HEA stories. The stories are connected by the friendship of the eight heroes. Lord Sebastian Trentham, Marquis of Deveril, known to his close acquaintances as Devil, is the third of the eight gentlemen known as The Sinners, tasked with discovering which of eight ladies in Society has been acting as a spy for Napoleon. He is expected to do this by fair means or foul. Alys doesn’t know whether to be distressed or angry when her brother informs her he has invited the Marquis of Deveril, along with several other of his male acquaintances, to join him for a weeklong shoot at their manor house in Worcestershire. The last time the marquis visited Alys’s home, she discovered him with a pistol in his hand as he stood over the dead body of her father. Devil is not looking forward to returning to Newcomb Manor and only accepted Sir Teddy Newcomb’s invitation because of the need to clear Alys Newcomb’s name of any wrongdoing. Not that she would thank Devil for it if she knew that was his intention. Alys believes she has every reason to dislike and distrust him, and nothing Devil says or does will convince her otherwise. From the minute the two of them meet again, sexual tension flares into life and refuses to be extinguished. Much as Alys might fight against it. When circumstances force the two of them into a hasty betrothal that sexual attraction flares out of control. But if Devil didn’t kill Alys’s father, then the real murderer must still be at large…

Book Magnus  Wynter Hearts 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Mortimer
  • Publisher : Carole Mortimer
  • Release : 2024-12-28
  • ISBN : 1914336208
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Magnus Wynter Hearts 2 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2024-12-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnus Wynter, billionaire owner of Wynter Security with three members of his family, doesn’t have the time, or want, a relationship. He certainly shouldn’t find himself attracted to the much-younger-than-him single mother, Sapphie Jones, or wrapped around the little finger of her enchanting daughter, three-year-old, Angel. But when someone threatens both mother and daughter, Magnus knows he isn’t going to be able to just walk away either.

Book Nathaniel  Dragon Hearts 1

Download or read book Nathaniel Dragon Hearts 1 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel is the 1st book in USA Today Bestselling and Amazon #1 author, Carole Mortimer’s, NEW paranormal series, DRAGON HEARTS. Warriors, from the mists of time? Dragons, of myth and legend? Or both? Taking a much-needed holiday in North Wales, journalist Chloe Evans discovers a castle not listed on any of the dozen or so maps she has of the area. The nearest thing she can find is the remains of a castle that used to be there but crumbled into ruin many centuries before. Her curiosity getting the better of her, Chloe decides to find out more about this imposing grey stone castle and anyone who might live there. The locals, she discovers, call it Pendragon Castle. When Chloe asks them more probing questions some say there are half a dozen male members of the original family still in residence, and that they’re brothers. Others claim there to be more, or less, than that number. But all, without fail, describe those men as being big and muscular, more handsome than any man has a right to be, with eyes capable of mesmerizing and seducing any woman who falls under their spell. Some of those people add a knowing wink, others a warning not to venture too near the castle, and to certainly keep her distance from the men living there. Visitors staying at the same small hotel as Chloe talk of seeing bright lights and helicopters landing on the mountain late at night, and of hearing strange noises that sound like the roars of wild animals. There was a story here, Chloe is certain of it. Whatever the story is regarding Pendragon Castle and the men who lived there, Chloe decides she isn’t leaving Wales until she’s discovered exactly what’s going on. While exploring the area around the castle, Chloe is challenged by the dark and taciturn Nathaniel. A man who fits the description of the castle’s inhabitants exactly: well over six feet tall, handsome as sin, with shoulders wide enough to fill a doorway, and eyes the colour of the clearest emerald. The moment she gazes into those mesmerizing green eyes Chloe realises she should have run while she still could.

Book Claimed by the Marquis  Regency Unlaced 2

Download or read book Claimed by the Marquis Regency Unlaced 2 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tamed by the Earl  Regency Unlaced 9

Download or read book Tamed by the Earl Regency Unlaced 9 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Daniel Somersby, the Earl of Latham, is relieved to be returning to his country estate in Kent after suffering through the boredom of yet another tedious London Season, as well as avoiding the more determined women set on marriage. He certainly doesn’t appreciate arriving home to find a brawl taking place in his stable yard. Having disguised herself as a young boy in order to escape the unwanted marriage being forced upon her by her cousin, heiress Lady Josephine Kendall is set upon by thieves within days of her desperate flight, and her money and possessions stolen from her. A week later, with no money to buy food or lodgings, she is in dire straits, and that night seeks refuge in the stables of the absent Earl of Latham. The head groom finds her asleep there in the morning and takes pity on her by offering her employment. Giving her name as Jo Turner she continues to dress in her male clothing, and quickly learns to swear and curse like the rest of the men working on the estate. The only fly in the ointment is the jealousy of one the other stable lads when Jo’s horsemanship finds favour with the head groom. Unfortunately the earl arrives home unexpectedly at the very moment Jo punches and bloodies said stable lad’s nose. Lord Daniel Somersby is more handsome than any man has a right to be, and it sets Jo’s heart aflutter just to look at him. He also brings a swift end to the altercation in his stable yard, and afterwards announces it is his intention to take a personal interest in “taming” Jo Turner into more acceptable behaviour. Faced with the choice of returning to the open road, along with possible detection by her cousin, or accepting the earl’s “taming” of the lad Jo Turner, she decides to opt for the latter. For the moment. Because if the earl discovers the stable boy is not a boy at all then Jo knows she will have no choice but to run again. Will Daniel discover Jo’s secret? And if he does what will he do about it? Or will Jo’s cousin find her first and drag her back home to marry a man she could never like let alone love? Author’s Note: The stories in the Regency Unlaced, Knight Security, and Alpha Series, have stronger sexual content and language than my other books.

Book Desired by a Lord

Download or read book Desired by a Lord written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desired by a Lord is the 5th book in USA Today bestselling author, Carole Mortimer's, bestseller and highly acclaimed Regency Unlaced Series.Author's Note: The stories in the Regency Unlaced, Alpha, and Knight Security Series, have stronger sexual content and language than my other books.Desired by a Lord is the story of a case of mistaken identity, hidden secrets, and desire that rages out of control every time the hero and heroine are alone together. All of which threatens to throw the two of them into a maelstrom of scandal.Mrs. Emily Marsden has lived in quiet obscurity in the country for the past five years, well away from Society and the scandal which broke her family apart. All of that changes with the death of Edmund, her historian husband, requiring that she now seek employment. Easier said than done, and not helped by the fact there is a blackmailer threatening to expose her if she does not give into their demands.Lord Alexander Whitney dislikes country life, but unfortunately he has no choice but to remain in Yorkshire for the foreseeable future. The Whitney estate, left to him by his father, is desperately in need of repair, and the famous Whitney Library, in need of cataloguing and returning to order.Xander is dealing with the run-down estate, and engaging the noted historian, Edmund Marsden, seems to be the logical thing to do in regard to restoring the library.When it is Mrs. Emily Marsden who arrives to carry out the task, Xander is not at all pleased to realize he has been duped.Or that he feels so strongly attracted to the young and mysterious widow he cannot seem to keep his hands, or other parts of his anatomy, from wanting her to touch and claim her.Can two people, who seem to be such opposites, find more in common than their desire for each other, and in doing so save Emily from the blackmailer threatening her future?Other books by Carole MortimerRegency Unlaced Series:The Duke's Mistress (Regency Unlaced 1)Claimed by the Marquis (Regency Unlaced 2)Taken by the Earl (Regency Unlaced 3)Pursued by the Viscount (Regency Unlaced 4)Desired by a Lord (Regency Unlaced 5)Captured by a Gentleman (Regency Unlaced 6)More books to come in this series.Contemporary Alpha Series:Christmas Alpha (Alpha 1) - FREEDark Alpha (Alpha 2)Shadow Alpha (Alpha 3) Author's 200th BookMidnight Alpha (Alpha 4)Renegade Alpha (Alpha 5)Warrior Alpha (Alpha 6)Rogue Alpha (Alpha 7)Savage Alpha (Alpha 8)Series is now complete.Contemporary Knight Security Series ? spin-off to Alpha Series:Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5) 5 author anthology, Rogues and RoyalsDefying Asher (Knight Security 1)Challenging Gabriel (Knight Security 2)More books to come in this series.Carole Mortimer has written over 210 books, in contemporary and Regency romance, and is the Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author?ever. 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance author. Was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her "outstanding service to literature".

Book Wicked Captive  Regency Sinners 5

Download or read book Wicked Captive Regency Sinners 5 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked Captive is the 5th book in USA Today Bestseller and Amazon #1 Author, Carole Mortimer’s, Regency Sinners series. Author’s Note: All the books in the very hot Regency Sinners series are complete and HEA stories. Books in the series are connected by the friendship of the heroes. Lord Jericho Black, the Marquis of Wessex, is not looking forward to the visit of his ward, Lady Jocelyn Forbes, to his Devonshire home. Jocey is not actually Jericho’s ward but his father’s. But as his father lives permanently in Scotland, and is considered to be eccentric by polite members of Society and more than a little strange by the majority, Jericho has taken it upon himself to act as Jocey’s guardian in his father’s stead these past three years. A bachelor of five and thirty, Jericho finds the role of guardian to a young lady difficult enough at the best of times, but finding himself charged with the unpleasant duty of proving or disproving whether Jocey is guilty of treason, is going to make this visit even more taxing than usual. Jocey is looking forward to seeing and being with Lord Jericho Black again, the man she has secretly been in love with since he became her guardian when she reached the age of eighteen. She is no longer that gauche and awkward young girl, and she is determined Jericho will now see her as a desirable woman, and worthy of his attention. From the moment Jocey arrives in Devon, even more beautiful than Jericho remembers her to be, and possessed of the sophistication and confidence of a woman who knows her own mind, Jericho quickly realizes it is not irritation he now feels toward Jocey but desire. A desire he is finding it more and more difficult to resist. When Jericho receives the shocking news of one close friend’s unexpected death, and the serious injury of another, it becomes imperative he learn the truth as quickly as possible, so as to avoid more blood being shed. Even if it requires Jericho make Jocey his prisoner and seduce the truth from her.

Book Rufus  Wynter Hearts 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Mortimer
  • Publisher : Carole Mortimer
  • Release : 2024-08-28
  • ISBN : 1914336178
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Rufus Wynter Hearts 1 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is also the first book in the new contemporary romantic suspense series, Wynter Hearts, by this USA Today and Amazon International #1 Bestselling Author. Rufus Wynter is determined to find the person who stole his daughter from him two decades ago. By a miracle she’s back in his life now, but someone needs to explain, and pay, for his having missed the first twenty years of his daughter’s life. Which means he doesn’t have time to suddenly find himself attracted to the young and beautiful Molly Harper when she comes to the offices of Wynter Security to ask for help tracking down her missing brother. Molly hadn’t expected Rufus Wynter to be quite so handsome, such a complete silver fox, at only forty-three, that it makes her toes curl just to look at him. But Molly has a secret. A secret so terrible she knows Rufus will hate her if he ever learns the truth.

Book Lily and the Duke  Regency Spinsters Alliance 1

Download or read book Lily and the Duke Regency Spinsters Alliance 1 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily and the Duke is the first book in the new Regency romance series, Regency Spinsters Alliance, by USA Today and International #1 Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer. Lily, and five of her friends all suffered through the previous London Season together. One thing they are now all agreed upon, as they are forced to attend a second Season, is that the gentlemen of the ton are invariably arrogant, conceited, and far too full of themselves and their own comfort to be in the least attentive to even the basic needs of a wife. As such, these six young ladies have formed an alliance, one in which they have agreed none of them will ever marry. Accepting a dare from the arrogantly superior Gabriel Lord, the Duke of St Albans, in which he challenges Lily’s decision by questioning her ability to resist his seduction, is the very last thing Lily should do. Most especially when the duke also declares that the victor shall choose their prize, when the time comes. Because Gabriel Lord has never lost a wager or a dare in his life. Gabriel knows, the moment he sets eyes on Lady Lily Tremayne, that she is meant to be his. But not only is she eighteen years his junior, but he also learns Lily is determined she will never succumb to feeling love or desire for any gentleman in Society. A battle of wills is about to commence!

Book Benedict s Challenge  Regency Club Venus 3

Download or read book Benedict s Challenge Regency Club Venus 3 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict’s Challenge (Regency Club Venus 3) is the 3rd book in Amazon #1 & USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, hot new historical romance series, Regency Club Venus. Lord Benedict Winter knows what those in Society think of him. Of their disapproval of his having studied and become a physician. They are even more shocked that he uses his skill, not just to treat the poor but also to care for the ladies of Club Venus, a house of ill-repute owned by one of his closest friends. Not disapproving enough to ban him from entering their homes of course, because he is, after all, one of the wealthiest gentleman in England. Having shunned all attempts to entice him into the Marriage Mart, many in Society also believe Benedict to be a cold and arrogant man, with no emotion to give. His close friends know better. As they also know of the secret he has kept for so long… In the circumstances, the very last thing Benedict needs or wants is to meet and instantly be attracted to Chloe, a young woman he discovers residing in another man’s home. Chloe has lost everyone dear to her. Her parents. The brother she adored. All gone. And in their place she now lives in the home of a man who despises her and takes every opportunity to make those feelings known to her. Lord Benedict Winter sweeps in like a breath of fresh air into the stultifying life Chloe is now forced to lead. But he blows hot and cold, one moment making his desire for her known and the next putting her at arms’ length and insisting he is not the man for her to build her dreams upon. But dreams, Chloe quickly discovers, have a will and determination of their own.

Book Wicked Deception  Regency Sinners 4

Download or read book Wicked Deception Regency Sinners 4 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked Deception is the 4th book in USA Today Bestseller Author, Carole Mortimer’s, Amazon #1 Regency Sinners series. Author’s Note: All the books in the very sexy Regency Sinners series are complete and HEA stories. The stories are connected by the friendship of the eight heroes. Maximillian Smythe, the Earl of Carlton, is the fourth of the eight gentleman, known as The Sinners, tasked with proving or disproving the guilt of a lady in Society as being a spy for Napoleon, and a traitor to the English Crown. The lady Maxim is to investigate is his young and beautiful widowed stepmother, Lady Heather Smythe, the Dowager Countess of Carlton. Maxim remembers Heather as being passionate and wild as the rugged Cornish coastline where she resides with her young son. Ralph is Maxim’s half-brother and his heir since their father died eighteen months ago. Heather is far from pleased when her arrogant stepson, Maxim Smythe, arrives at Treganon House for an unexpected visit. She is only too well aware of the contempt Maxim’s has for her. As she holds less than fond memories of him. From the moment of Maxim’s arrival they treat each other with suspicion. Heather believes Maxim, a friend of the Prince Regent, to be in Cornwall to investigate the smuggling in the area. Something her family has been involved in for several centuries. Maxim knows Heather is hiding something but he is unsure if it is her role as a spy for the imprisoned usurper, Napoleon, or something else. While the turbulent seas roil and crash in the cove beneath Treganon House, the desire and passion Maxim and Heather once shared flares back into life, and this time refuses to be extinguished.