Her Gilded Prison
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She was determined to secure the succession, he was in it for the pleasure. Falling in love was not part of the arrangement.
When dashing twenty-five-year-old Stephen Cranbourne arrives at the estate he will one day inherit, itโs expected he will make a match with his beautiful second cousin, Araminta.ย
But while proud, fiery Araminta and her shy, plain sister, Hetty, parade their very different charms before him, itโs their mother, Sybil, a lonely and discarded wife, who evokes first his sympathy and then stokes his lustful fires.ย
As Stephen introduces Sybil to every pleasure sheโs been deprived of, duty and passion become a deep and mutual love. But with the unexpected arrival of a contender to the estate, Sybil realises that what she's set in motion to save the family might have tragic consequences.
Her Gilded Prisonย is Book 1 in theย Daughters of Sinย series, a Regency-set 'Dynasty' that follows the sibling rivalry between Viscount Partington's two nobly-born and his illegitimate daughters as they compete for love during a London Season.ย Her Gilded Prisonย can, however, be read as a stand-alone.
Prequel: Scandal of the Season
Book 1: Her Gilded Prison
Book 2: Dangerous Gentlemen
Book 3: The Mysterious Governess
Book 4: Beyond Rubies
Book 5: Lady Unveiled~The Cuckold Conspiracy
Heat rating: sizzling.
Author Q&A
Why should I read the Daughters of Sin series?
If you like your historical romance laced with intrigue, mystery and drama with a dash ofย humor, youโll love this Regency-eraย Dynasty.
There are plenty of unexpected twists and turns in the storyline as four very different sisters โ two nobly born, two illegitimate โ compete for loveb as they bring to justice a dangerous, handsome villain.
Essentially each book is a self-contained romance with an espionage plot woven throughout the series.
While each book features one โworthyโ sister, it's beautiful but vain and selfish Araminta who embroils her half-sisters in subterfuge and drama as she tries to extricate herself from a very big problem that occurs at the end ofย Dangerous Gentlemen, Book 2.
* Free, freebie, Regency romance, family saga, Victorian historical, British historical, plot twist
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Beverley Oakley is an Australian author who grew up in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, married a Norwegian bush pilot she met while running a safari lodge in in Botswanaโs Okavango Delta, and started writing historical romances to amuse herself in the 12 countries sheโs lived as a โtrailing spouseโ (in between working as an airborne geophysical survey operator, a teacher of English as a Second Language, and writing for her former newspaper).
Herย Scandalous Miss Brightwellย series was nominatedย Best Historical Romanceย by theย Australian Romance Readers Association. She is also the author of the popularย Daughters of Sinย series, a Regency-era โDynasty-styleโ family saga laced with intrigue.
Under her real name Beverley Eikli, she writes Africa-set romantic suspense, and psychological historical romances.ย The Reluctant Bridewon Choc-Litโsย Search for an Australian Starย competition and her Regency tale of redemptionย The Maid of Milanย was shortlisted in theย Top Ten Reads of 2014ย at theย UK Festival of Romance.
Beverley lives north of Melbourne (overlooking a fabulous Gothic lunatic asylum) with the same gorgeous Norwegian husband, two daughters and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback.
