It's a lovely story and well-written, a bit different from Balogh's Regency style but fitting perfectly into the Georgian era. He also finds he must revise his opinions of others in his family.
Lucas realizes that there is more to the lady than he first thought. Of course, Anna is not what she appears and has dark secrets in her past. His relatives are pushing him toward Lady Anna Marlowe, and much to his surprise, Lucas finds himself willing to acquiesce. One of his first duties is to find a wife and beget some heirs.
Now he must return to resolve the tangled relationships he left behind. Lucas Kendrick becomes Duke of Harndon after being ousted from his family. It's also somewhat Gothic with an evil villain obsessed with the heroine. Mary Balogh is a favorite Regency author, but shades of Georgette Heyer, I found this older book set in Georgian England. But for her, marriage cannot so easily solve what is wrong in her life-not when a tormentor stalks her to the very doors of Bowden Abbey, where Luke and Anna must learn to trust in each other or risk any chance they may have for a happy future. Anna, far from being the bright-eyed innocent Luke takes her for, is no more a stranger to the shadows of a painful past than he is. He faces the prospect of marrying with the greatest reluctance-until he sees beguiling Lady Anna Marlowe across a ballroom one night. Unwilling as he is to be involved with them, he must assume responsibility for his younger siblings, the family estate he once loved-and the succession. Ten years later, fate has brought him back home to England as head of the family who rejected him. Betrayed by his elder brother, rejected by his fiancEe, banished by his father, and shunned by his mother, Luke fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society. Life has taught Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, that a heart is a decided liability. From New York Times bestselling legend Mary Balogh-and the beloved author of Longing, Silent Melody, and Beyond the Sunrise-comes a ravishing novel of passion and duty, love and menace.
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