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"Engaging historical romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 24, 2003
In 1831 King William sends Adrian Burchard to bring Sophia
Raughley back to England though she feels her home is in
Paris after eight years there. However, with the death of
her estranged father, Sophia inherits the Duchy of
Everdom. This means among other things she is considered Read more...
"Two outstanding characters in a wonderful romance."
Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted November 30, 2003
Adrian Burchard is on a mission to find the Duchess of
Everdon, Sophia Raughley, and from what he's heard, this
duchess is a woman who has no respect for the proper
boundaries of society. That's reinforced when he finds
Sophia scantily clad and being romanced by a scoundrel.
Adrian loads Read more...
SummaryTheir first meeting is not promising. Sent by the king to
bring the Sophia Raughley home, Adrian Burchard finds her
in another man's arms, at an orgy that includes the young
artists who form her entourage. He soon discovers,
however, that this errant daughter of the nobility hides
secrets and wounds beneath her mask of frivolity, and
possesses a vulnerable sensuality that draws him like no
other woman has.
Sophia resents this man who high-handedly interferes with
her life—a life in which she hides from the past.
Worse, he seems to offer an intimacy that she dare not
accept—until the night when he skillfully seduces
her, peeling away the defenses to her heart as artfully as
he does the layers of her clothing. As Sophia falls under
the spell of his erotic charms, and Adrian finds himself
unable to resist her passionate response, they embark on a
dangerous affair. An affair that will either destroy them
both, or prove the one thing that can save them when
mysteries from the past reach out to entangle the present.
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