#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens explores the strength of a fated love, one that was left in abeyance when the protagonists were too young, but that roars back to life when, as adults, they meet again.
A full-length historical romance of 127,000 words..
A novel arising from the Lady Osbaldestone\'s Christmas Chronicles.
A classic historical romance laced with murderous intrigue.
Through a whirlwind courtship, a massive ton wedding, and finally, blissful country peace, they fend off increasingly dangerous, potentially lethal threats, until, together, they unravel the conspiracy that\'s dogged their heels and expose the villain behind it all.
However, it\'s soon apparent that someone is intent on ensuring their married life is cut short in deadly fashion.
And, indeed, as they discover, enforced separation has made their hearts grow fonder, and the attraction between them flares even more intensely.
Consequently, he\'s not averse to the path Fate seems to be steering them down.
He\'d assumed that by now, Melissa would be married to someone else, but apparently not.
Now, having inherited the earldom, he must marry and is determined to choose his own bride.
Julian has never forgotten Melissa.
Within twenty-four hours, she and Julian are the newly engaged toast of the ton.
She seizes the first chance that offers to flee, only to discover she\'s jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
Then she sees Julian across a crowded ballroom, and he sees her, and the intensity of their connection shocks her.
Unfortunately, during the intervening years, she\'s failed to find any suitable suitor who measures up to her mark and is resigned to ending her days an old maid.
What happens when a Love left behind doesn\'t die? Melissa North had assumed that after eight years of not setting eyes on each other, her youthful attraction to-or was it infatuation with?-Julian Delamere, once Viscount Dagenham and now Earl of Carsely, would have faded to nothing and gasped its last.
A lady ready and waiting to be deemed on the shelf has her transition into spinsterhood disrupted when the nobleman she\'d once thought she loved returns to London and fate and circumstance conspire to force them to discover what Love truly is and what it means to them. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens explores the strength of a fated love, one that was left in abeyance when the protagonists were too young, but that roars back to life when, as adults, they meet again
