Against the glamorous backdrop of Victorian high society, Liz Carlyle paints a dramatic tale of dangerous desire, the first in her sizzling new trilogy. All Grace Gauthier ever wanted was the security of a good marriage, family, and home. Instead, despised by her aristocratic fathers family because of her mothers foreign birth, shes taken a safe position as a governess. Now, unprotected and alone in London, accused of the shocking murder of her employer, she has no one to turn to except the mysteriousand possibly dangerousLord Ruthveyn. A dark-eyed Lucifer, Ruthveyn guards his secrets carefully. His shadowed past is a source of pain and rumorsonly whispered. Graces plightwhich echoes his ownmoves him, as does her quiet beauty. Ruthveyn is determined to save Grace by unmasking a killer.
