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Tenth‑century London’s finicky elite find their lives tangled when Mis Prudence Merryweather Payton, the only unmarried graduate of her finishing school, decides to accept a reluctant engagement. Her betrothed, John Roark, Viscount Castleton, is a charming aristocrat with ambitions that exclude a wife. A stagecoach escape from a highwayman forces Prudence to vow never to trust a man again. When fate brings the two together at a country inn, a delicate dance of seduction and danger begins. As Prudence’s hidden past resurfaces, John must protect her while risking his own secrets that could undermine his future.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Maya Rodale
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