Six months it had taken them to travel there, on a brother's whim to visit new climes and enjoy his newly acquired inheritance. So different from the dry, barren, and barely civilized colony of Australia.
The sea ebbed and flowed around her great waves rolled and brought her ever closer to home. He can only pray their love will survive the scandal that sent him away, the lies he has told her, and the duel he must fight for his honor and her hand. But when an elder brother dies, and the woman who claimed his heart over his love for the ocean brings him home, he knows he has to face the secrets of his past. But when May and William discover the crippling truth of each other, their secrets will threaten to tear them apart.More at home on his ship than dallying with the ton, Gabriel Lyons, now the Duke of Dale, intended never to set foot in London again. May drives him to distraction and forces him to admit to feelings he has never felt before. William has never veered from his pursuit of these men working against the law, that was until he meets May Stanford, the maddening daughter of his host for Christmas. William, Lord Grandison works for the Crown, and is determined to catch the nuisance Englishmen who dare smuggle along the Cornwall coast.
So when William Scott, the Earl of Grandison arrives and crumbles her perfectly planned future to rubble, May is less than pleased. One last Christmas at home and her life would change forever. But before she can embark on her new life, May must complete her dealings with the local smugglers, men who have kept a roof over her family’s head during frugal times.
After two failed seasons in town, May Stanford sees her future no longer with her family, but in a nearby convent where she’ll not be anyone’s financial burden.
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