Chapter 1
“Lawks, Wilson! Why’d ye go an’ do that?”

Chapter 2
Lucien awoke slowly, adrift in muted sensations. His head lay…

Chapter 3
Lady Melwin sat knitting, her needles clacking through the red…

Chapter 4
Lucien awoke slowly, pulled from deep sleep by a pounding…

Chapter 5
Arabella grasped the handle of the damper and pulled. The…

Chapter 6
“Bloody hell,” Lucien choked. “What’s this?”

Chapter 7
“What do you want, Lucien?”

Chapter 8
Hours later, Arabella entered her aunts’ room with an impatient…

Chapter 9
Buoyed by the duke’s brooding glances at her niece during…

Chapter 10
Lucien stepped onto the terrace and lifted his face to…

Chapter 11
“By yonder blessed moon I swear…” said a deep, mocking…

Chapter 12
Dinner that night was grueling for Arabella. Lucien took every…

Chapter 13
Sir David Loughton swung out of the saddle. “Damnation,” he…

Chapter 14
Night was her favorite time. Arabella loved the endless black…

Chapter 15
The Red Rooster was unremarkable in that it offered moderately…

Chapter 16
“Don’t look at me like that,” Arabella muttered at the…

Chapter 17
Arabella closed the barn door and went to pat Sebastian,…

Chapter 18
Arabella rested until noon, waiting impatiently for Lucien to return.

Chapter 19
Arabella frowned at the snow-covered road. “This isn’t the way.”

Chapter 20
Arabella turned back toward the fire, afraid to look too…

Chapter 21
A brisk rap awoke Arabella from a deep, languorous sleep.

Chapter 22
Lucien and Arabella rode up to Rosemont on Sebastian and…

Chapter 23
Aunt Jane was determined that the wedding would be the…

Chapter 24
A soft knock sounded. Startled, Arabella sat bolt upright in…

Chapter 25
There had never been a lovelier bride, decided Aunt Jane,…

Chapter 26
Lucien heaved a heavy sigh of relief as the door…

Chapter 27
Lucien checked his pocket watch for the fourth time. The…

Chapter 28
Liza stared up at the tree, whose huge branches swayed…