Masque of Enchantment

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  • Accused
  • of
  • murder,
  • actress
  • Alissa
  • Ashford
  • fled
  • London
  • for
  • Scotland
  • in
  • the
  • drab
  • garb
  • of
  • a
  • prim
  • governess.
  • Her
  • employer,
  • Jared
  • Braxton,
  • was
  • supremely
  • masculine
  • and
  • imperiously
  • attractive,
  • with
  • a
  • manner
  • that
  • sorely
  • tested
  • proud
  • Alissa’s
  • assumed
  • meekness.
  • Yet
  • despite
  • their
  • clashes
  • of
  • will,
  • they
  • were
  • one
  • in
  • their
  • devotion
  • to
  • Jared’s
  • little
  • girl,
  • whose
  • soul
  • was
  • wounded
  • by
  • her
  • mother’s
  • shocking
  • death.For
  • the
  • mahogany-maned
  • beauty
  • was
  • not
  • the
  • only
  • one
  • with
  • a
  • secret
  • within
  • Hawkstone’s
  • magnificent
  • walls.
  • Jared,
  • too,
  • kept
  • his
  • brooding
  • counsel.
  • Driven
  • by
  • the
  • passion
  • that
  • burned
  • between
  • them,
  • he
  • seized
  • on
  • an
  • unforeseen
  • discovery
  • and
  • forced
  • Alissa
  • to
  • become
  • his
  • wife.
  • Still
  • they
  • denied
  • the
  • tenderness
  • that
  • charged
  • their
  • desire
  • until
  • they
  • were
  • enmeshed
  • in
  • a
  • deadly
  • intrigue
  • that
  • threatened
  • all
  • they treasured!
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