
The Rake and the Recluse: a romance novel with photographs
Two complete love stories in one beautiful book. Time travel... is just the beginning.I never thought time-travel was real. Until it happened to me...But isn't all fun and games. A woman in Victorian England is a commodity. She's owned. I'm no longer the powerful business woman I was just moments ago and on top of it all I'm controlled by a man who may destroy more than my heart. My only chance for safety lies in Gideon Trumbull, a lionhearted--but evasive--duke.What began as a compulsion to learn anything I could about him turns into an urgent need and I find myself in an inescapable new reality--a world in which I don't belong. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile... Gideon's brother Perry has likewise been caught up in an incident, finding a stowaway housemaid in his carriage as he's bound for London...I plan to seduce the rake who refuses to touch me. Propriety be damned. Getting him to teach me what lo