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Thea Devine heats up another erotic romance in this historical marked by betrayal, deception, and sexual fantasies. The time is 1899; the place, South Africa. Orphan soldier Dar St. Onge is recruited to play the part of the traitor Ducas Osborne, a dying man who could pass as his double. Dar returns to England, feigning amnesia, and steps cautiously into Ducas's life. His mission: to uncover Ducas's secrets, "kill" him again, and make good his escape. But he hasn't reckoned on the lush, decadent world of Sangborne Manor, the mysterious forces trying to stop him, or the changeling Angene, who pretends to have been Ducas's lover and now must put that deceit to the test. Even as Angene and Dar play out their parts in an affair that turns ever more passionate, the unholy secrets of Ducas's life threaten not only their future but that of Sangborne Manor and the neighboring villages. Ginger Curwen
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There is desire in deception...
On a bloody Victorian battlefield, the penniless soldier of fortune, Dar St. Onge, has just been recruited for a covert mission to uncover the dark secrets of a mysterious family by taking the place of its dying heir, Ducas Sangbourne, a man who looks enough like him to be his twin.
...lust behind fear...
From the moment he arrives at Sangbourne Manor, Dar enters a world of unimagined privilege and wealth, where every decadent craving is gratified, every erotic fantasy is fulfilled, and the sins of the past simmer just below the surface. Dar must navigate a minefield of things he doesn't know, and raw emotions he's never felt before to even scratch the surface of the secrets of Sangbourne Manor. But nothing can prepare him for the half-gypsy Angene, who is determined to become Ducas's mistress. Wholly feminine, exotically beautiful, and too suspicious of him by far, she has the power to destroy him -- when she isn't bringing him to his knees with her warm, willing sensuality...
...and danger in total surrender.
Now, as darkness settles over Sangbourne Manor, a powerful and unholy menace is gathering force, an unnatural bloodlust that hides behind the veneer of society and threatens everything Dar has ever wanted. In this opulent world where everything has a price and no payment is too steep, two suspicious lovers will have to learn to trust each other as Dar battles body and soul to claim his woman and his destiny.