Clandestine
- Author: Gayle Eden
- Publisher: Alinar Publishing
- Year: 2007
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Thornton St. Lyons has survived war, and a French prison. He’s ready to return to life he dreamed of at Greystone. But the responsibilities to his title, and the financial situation of his ancestral home, force him to go to London on a bride hunt— specifically, he needs an heiress. Before that day Jane Archer arrives to collect some things she has left behind whilst she lived there for three years. At first Thorn thought her plain yet intelligent, but no more than a few moments in conversation, and Thorn is aware of both her attraction to him, and his own interest in Jane. The situation at Greystone is clear to Thorn, the estate is on the brink of ruin— and if it wasn’t clear to him, his friend and mentor Edmund de Lacy, Marquis of Warbrook will happily keep reminding him of it. Nothing less than an heiress, a proper countess will do. Jane too, loves Greystone and knows what it needs, she is engaged to an older man, and has no illusions about the attraction leading to anything serious.
And yet, in London, Thorn seeks her out and it only takes one kiss, to lead them both down an impossible path. Clandestine meetings plunge them deeper into a passionate affair that is destined to end painfully. Thorn must restore Greystone, and Jane must sacrifice what she feels for him as the best choice for Greystone and for Thorn. However love gives hope where there is none, and in the anguish of knowing they must part, there may be the possibility of someday...
