The Unscrupulous Uncle

The Suspect Suitor

Catherine Braxton had adored Damon ever since she was a little girl, and Damon was her older brother's best friend. But that was long ago. Her brother was gone now, slain in war. Catherine herself was an orphan in a household of rapacious relations who had reduced her to shocking servitude. And Damon had become the Earl of Devlin, engaged to the most beautiful belle of the ton.

Why then had he come to see her after eight years? Why did he claim he wanted to wed her, when it was clear he passionately loved another? Was Damon paying a secret debt to her brother at cruel cost to himself? Or was he intent on making a fortune by taking Catherine to be his wife? Catherine had to find the answer -- even though it might break the heart she had long ago lost to him....