Ravished

Alexandra Sheffield has grown up knowing who she is supposed to marry. Lord Christopher Hatton has the title and the fortune, and half of London envies the match. Alex, a flame-haired young woman with a hunger for adventure, has no wish to hurry to the altar with a spoiled aristocrat. Her thoughts keep drifting to someone far more dangerous: Christopher's twin brother, Nicholas. Nick Hatton has never lacked for beautiful women, and he has been careful never to risk his heart on any of them. Then he learns that his reckless brother has gambled away the family inheritance and means to rebuild his finances through a marriage to Alex. Nick is determined to protect her and will go to any length to stop the scheme. The trouble is that the girl he is trying to rescue has become a woman he can hardly look at without wanting. Her wild beauty and daring flirtation test his self-control at every meeting, and he knows that one moment of weakness could change everything for both of them. Set in nineteenth-century London, this is a story of forbidden desire, family betrayal and a passion that refuses to be kept in check.