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A Viscount with a reputation as a rake, an innocent young lady, a country house party that leads to seduction and more. A hope of love that leads to ruin…
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Miss Camilla Thornberry is the classic example of a lady fallen on difficult times – companion to her elderly great aunt, she is completely unprepared when she accompanies her aunt to a house party. The glamour of it all seems overwhelming to her, and her heart is captured by the first gentleman who has ever shown the slightest interest in her.
Hartford Willingham, Viscount Kentbrook, is quite taken with Miss Thornberry, who is pretty, and unaffected. In a moment of impulse, he decides to amuse himself by seducing ‘the poor relation’. Things proceed apace, and he takes his time about things, even going so far as to see the girl again once the house party ends.
Everything changes for Camilla when her aunt is taken by a consumption, and Camilla is left impoverished and homeless – just at the point when she discovers the terrible consequences of having given her heart – and body – to a rake. She sees no option but to act, to attempt to secure her future.
Lord Kentbrook thought that he had ended things as he had always expected to, but is confounded by Camilla’s actions, and makes a concession of a kind that he has never considered before.
Can anything be saved from the situation? Will Camilla accept what he offers? Or is she doomed to a life of misery?
Genre: Historical Romance
****** READ NOW ON KINDLE UNLIMITED *****
Miss Camilla Thornberry is the classic example of a lady fallen on difficult times – companion to her elderly great aunt, she is completely unprepared when she accompanies her aunt to a house party. The glamour of it all seems overwhelming to her, and her heart is captured by the first gentleman who has ever shown the slightest interest in her.
Hartford Willingham, Viscount Kentbrook, is quite taken with Miss Thornberry, who is pretty, and unaffected. In a moment of impulse, he decides to amuse himself by seducing ‘the poor relation’. Things proceed apace, and he takes his time about things, even going so far as to see the girl again once the house party ends.
Everything changes for Camilla when her aunt is taken by a consumption, and Camilla is left impoverished and homeless – just at the point when she discovers the terrible consequences of having given her heart – and body – to a rake. She sees no option but to act, to attempt to secure her future.
Lord Kentbrook thought that he had ended things as he had always expected to, but is confounded by Camilla’s actions, and makes a concession of a kind that he has never considered before.
Can anything be saved from the situation? Will Camilla accept what he offers? Or is she doomed to a life of misery?
Genre: Historical Romance
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