Hidden secrets. A possible murder. Matchmaking grandmas. Scandalous, well, scandal. And last but not least, the romance of a lifetime. Let the masquerade begin!
Debut author, Rika Ashton, tells a tale of the ultimate deception, passion and romance...
Lucien Castello, a former student of Oxford and the heir to a weathly dukedom, has been ordered to commit the most grevious of deeds...GET MARRIED! But if that wasn't enough, someone has also been sabotaging his secret empire. Really what's a man to do?
Enter Jade...
She is Lucien's every wish fulfilled and the perfect wife to boot...only she refuses to surrender her independence for anything! Jade knows that marrying Lucien would mean revealing the very secrets she has worked too hard to conceal, yet the young duke-to-be is proving far more persistent that she would have imagined.
And so the masquerade begins...
(Complete at 90,000 words--partial, uneditted draft posted.)