But because dire financial straits had bound her to the enigmatic Earl of Caldbeck, Catherine Maury resolved to make the best of it. Yet could she break through his mysterious restraint and uncover the secret of his true nature?
Charles Randolph, Earl of Caldbeck, had always guarded his emotions closely, and an insidious danger to his people only deepened his reserve. But now that he'd taken fiery, greathearted Catherine to wife, he could feel that the walls around his heart were close to tumbling down!
Patricia Frances Rowell lives in north Louisiana on thirty-two acres of trees in a house that she and her own hero built with their own hands. Her first novel was a RITA Award finalist in 2003 and won the unpublished Daphne Award under its working title in 2001. Her second book took second place in the 2004 published Daphne Award. A Scandalous Situation, published in 2004, also placed second in the 2005 Daphne. Visit Patricia’s website at: www.patriciafrancesrowell.com