From New York Times bestselling legend Mary Baloghand the beloved author of Longing, Silent Melody, and Beyond the Sunrisecomes a ravishing novel of passion and duty, love and menace....
Life has taught Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, that a heart is a decided liability. Betrayed by his elder brother, rejected by his fiancEe, banished by his father, and shunned by his mother, Luke fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society.
Ten years later, fate has brought him back home to England as head of the family who rejected him. Unwilling as he is to be involved with them, he must assume responsibility for his younger siblings, the family estate he once lovedand the succession. He faces the prospect of marrying with the greatest reluctanceuntil he sees beguiling Lady Anna Marlowe across a ballroom one night.
Anna, far from being the bright-eyed innocent Luke takes her for, is no more a stranger to the shadows of a painful past than he is. But for her, marriage cannot so easily solve what is wrong in her lifenot when a tormentor stalks her to the very doors of Bowden Abbey, where Luke and Anna must learn to trust in each other or risk any chance they may have for a happy future.
It happened at the ball….Where beautiful but bold Lillian Bowman quickly learned that her independent American ways weren’t entirely “the thing.” And the most disapproving of all was insufferable, snobbish, and impossible Mar...
The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, in the fourth novel of the Survivors' Club series, Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, has left...
New York Times best-selling author Julia Quinn has a knack for creating dynamic characters and sizzling romances. Gareth St. Clair is summoned home from his studies only to learn that he has been bequeathed an old family journal, which he cannot rea...
He has tried hard to forget her.
Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins—...
The one thing he cannot reveal to the one woman he most desires is his deepest need.
Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has a problem: he needs to marry and produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long ...
He is everything she wants to avoid…
For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters — a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges’ older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. Ca...
A Devil's BargainEasily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vin...
He was everything she’d sworn to avoid…Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dange...
This tale closes best-selling author Julia Quinn's popular and critically acclaimed Bridgerton series. Gregory Bridgerton has watched love simply walk into the lives of his six siblings, so he has just been waiting for his turn. When he sees beautif...
AudiobooksNow review by PATRICIA on 2015-10-20 17:46:04
My least favorite M Balogh book ever, but it is a reissue of a 20 year old book, so I guess she improved a lot afterwards. Still good enough to have me planning to jump right into the sequel when I finish, hoping the H/hs younger siblings are more likeable in Silent Melody. Luke & Anna were both pretty forgettable and Ive never had much sympathy for protagonists who thought hiding dark secrets was a good plan.
