Her Valentine's Secret

By Beverley Oakley

A beautiful French emigree in London after the French Revolution is torn between her heart's desire and her desire for justice...

Lady Athelton's St Valentine's Ball is a place for love, not vengeance.

But when the gentlemen of the ton select their partner for the evening from a silver bowl of ladies’ names, the once-carefree Lisette uses the opportunity to settle old scores.

In an accident of chance – or design - Lucien Monteil, handsome Vicomte and darling of post-revolutionary France, is the man with whom Lisette is to spend the evening.

He is also the man who betrayed her father, sending him to the guillotine.

And the man who stole her heart so many years ago.

Now Lisette must fight the rising tide of her passions, torn between her heart's desire and her desire for justice.

Read this exciting tale of betrayal, love, and second chances, and be transported to an age of danger, excitement and honor!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beverley Oakley
• Release date: Jun 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463956458

Beverley Oakley

Beverley Oakley was seventeen when she bundled up her first her 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Unfortunately drowning her heroine on the last page was apparently not in line with the expectations of romance readers so Beverley became a journalist. Twenty-six years later Beverley was delighted to receive her first publishing contract from Robert Hale (UK) for a romance in which she ensured her heroine was saved from drowning in the icy North Sea. Since 2009 Beverley has written more than thirteen historical romances, mostly set in England during the early nineteenth century. Mystery, intrigue and adventure spill from their pages and if she can pull off a thrilling race to save someone’s honour – or a worthy damsel from the noose – it’s time to celebrate with a good single malt Scotch. Beverley lives with her husband, two daughters and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy the size of a pony opposite a picturesque nineteenth century lunatic asylum. She also writes Africa-set adventure-filled romances tarring handsome bush pilot heroes, and historical romances with less steam and more sexual tension, as Beverley Eikli.

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