Ten years before, Luke had a falling out with his family after a duel with his older brother, and even the death of that brother eight years later did not bring him to England immediately.īut two years after George’s death, Luke is back from his exile in France, and his uncle Theo persuades him to take a bride in order to settle a dispute between his mother and his sister-in-law, Henrietta, whom Luke once loved. It is the Georgian-era story of Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, and Anna Marlowe, the woman he marries after having only known her for a week. Your older, angstier books are generally reliable in that even if when they are flawed, they make it easy for me to turn the pages.
I’ve been in a reading slump lately and decided to try Heartless, your out of print historical romance from 1995, which has been sitting in my TBR pile for ages, in the hope that it would absorb me. But for her, marriage cannot so easily solve what is wrong in her life-not 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.Janine C Reviews historical romance 21 Comments He faces the prospect of marrying with the greatest reluctance-until he sees beguiling Lady Anna Marlowe across a ballroom one night.Īnna, 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. Unwilling as he is to be involved with them, he must assume responsibility for his younger siblings, the family estate he once loved-and the succession. Ten years later, fate has brought him back home to England as head of the family who rejected him. Betrayed by his elder brother, rejected by his fiancée, banished by his father, and shunned by his mother, Luke fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society. Life has taught Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, that a heart is a decided liability.
From New York Times bestselling legend Mary Balogh-and the beloved author of Longing, Silent Melody, and Beyond the Sunrise-comes a ravishing novel of passion and duty, love and menace.
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