Seduced

Even amid the spectacle and splendor of the carnival in Venice, the masked rogue was brazen, reckless, and dangerously risque. As he stole Valentine St. James away from the costume ball at which her betrothal to a complete stranger was to be announced, the exquisite beauty reveled in the illicit thrill of his touch, the tender passion in his kiss. But Valentine learned that illusion ruled the festival when, at the stroke of midnight, her mysterious suitor revealed he was Lord Hawkeston, the very man she was to wed. Convinced her intended was all unrepentant scoundrel, Valentine wanted to deny her maddening attraction for him, only to keep finding herself in his heated embrace. Yet was she truly losing her heart to the dashing peer – or was she being ruthlessly...SEDUCED