Pride & Passion

Charlotte is an erotic-romance writer who pens sexy and sensual tales for Harlequin SPICE. Charlotte loves learning about different cultures, and frequently likes to add exotic locales in her stories, using her research as "armchair" vacations. Amongst her vices are good chocolate, her husband's coffee, her DVD of North and South with the ultra yummy Richard Armitage, and a really good book with a dark, brooding alpha male and hot love scenes! She also has a tendency to develop terribly naughty crushes on her heroes, much to her husband's chagrin! Charlotte loves the classics Austen, the Brontës and Dickens. In romance, she devours anything written by Lisa Kleypas and J.R. Ward gotta love Phury, Rhage and V! Sinopsis Lucy Ashton long ago gave up her quest for true love. In the rarified society of Victorian England, Lucy plays the game – flirting, dancing, even dabbling in fashionable séances. But when it comes to marrying who – and when – she's supposed to, Lucy is firm. The stuffy, proper Duke of Sussex cannot spark the passion she craves, despite her father's wishes that they wed. But Adrian, Lord Sussex, is not the man the London ton has come to admire. His prim façade is only a means to conceal the ruinous secret that would shatter any chance of winning Lucy's affections, and when he finally reveals his sensual nature she responds in kind. Yet there is someone else who knows the truth, someone who would use it to destroy Adrian's happiness. Passion has a price, Lucy soon learns. And not all ghosts stay buried.