Introduction

The would-be Earl of Ashwood sets his romantic sights on a forbidden prize in the enchanting third novel from Julia London's addictively sexy new series.

The surprising news that dashing steward Harrison Tolly, illegitimate son of the Earl of Ashwood, is the rightful heir to his father's estate comes at a most inopportune time. With a wedding on the horizon and a baby on the way, a new life of privilege and prestige would be a blessing but for one problem: his heart belongs to another woman.

Harrison keeps his desires for his employer's wife, Lady Olivia Carey, so hidden that even she does not know of his devotion. Her callous husband, Marquis Carey, went into a rampage after Olivia's troublesome younger sister returned from her tour of Spain pregnant, and Harrison impulsively stepped in to save the entire family from scandal. Now, like Olivia, he is trapped in a loveless arrangement. When a tragic accident claims the marquis? life soon thereafter, can Harrison seize his chance and cast aside one sister for another? Or will doing so expose the Carey family's darkest secret?and ruin his only chance to win Olivia's heart?

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On a warm spring day in Regency England:

Harrison Tolly rode down the forest path that led to the river road, and as he emerged from the forest, he came upon Lady Carey in the grassy clearing beside the river.
She was standing before an easel. She wore a wide-brimmed hat and held a palette in one hand. She was dressed in a white muslin gown and a rose-colored spencer. A footman was sitting on a rock on the river’s edge, a fishing pole in his hand. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1. Lady Carey suffered from an emotionally abusive relationship, yet she refused to leave it to be with the man she loved. Instead, she pushed her sister into his arms. Did she do the right thing? Is there another way she might have handled that complex and emotional situation?

2. In Regency England, men held all the power. Harrison Tolly’s mother, Lady Carey’s mother, and Lady Carey herself had only their bodies and the trinkets men had given them as tools of power for themselves. How has the balance of power shifted for women today? In what ways has the balance remained the same?

3. If Alexa Hastings’ secret was revealed, the damage to her reputation would be so great that she would be shunned from society and would extend to her unborn child. Alexa is presented with an option that will save the reputation of her child, but will compromise who she is. What was the correct thing for her to do?

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