The Dark Lord
(By Karen Keegan)
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For her entire life Catherine Greystow has lived as a servant in her Aunt and Uncle's home. With her mother having died and her father having abandoned her, she has been left at their mercy for the last eighteen years. Then, on her twentieth birthday a dark and dangerous stranger shows up at her home. He is the rakish Jonathan Thornley, an English Viscount, sent to collect her by her father, The Duke of Lancaster. With no choice but to trust him, Catherine accepts his hand and leaves her Aunt's home, to accept her place as one of the wealthiest heiresses in England.
But Catherine's joyful reunion with the Duke is short-lived. Because the person who killed him now wants Catherine dead. And Catherine must be careful who she trusts. With Count Thornley intent upon marrying her, Catherine must decide whether the Count lusts for her or her fortune.
For as long as he can remember Jonathan Thornley has resented the daughter of Duke Greystow - the cousin who raised him. He thinks Catherine a silly girl, content with receiving his cousin's fortune but refusing to see the man himself. When asked by his dying cousin to retrieve the girl he crosses the Atlantic to bring home the selfish, spoiled brat. But when he arrives in the States he is surprised to find instead an unspoiled woman, as unaware of her fortune as she is of her beauty.
Too late, he recognizes that his cousin's illness is no accident, and that the same villain may have now arranged a series of accidents for Catherine. The only way Jonathan can save Catherine is to marry her. And to do so, he must make her believe that he loves her and not her fortune. Before it is too late.”
