He motivation is clear – although penniless at the time, he has since suddenly inherited the title and estates after his uncle’s death in a train crash.Fleeing Louise and London for the safety of the countryside he breaks his collarbone in a carriage accident and is knocked unconscious.When he awakens he finds he is being nursed by a lovely country girl called Purilla. Man about town and something of a “ladies’ man” the new Earl of Rockbrook has given little thought to a liaison at Windsor Castle in which one of the Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting, Lady Louise appears in his bedroom – so he is appalled when he learns that Louise’s mother expects him to marry her. The romantic saga of the Van Alen sisters continues with Christal Van Alen’s story in Fair Is the Rose. But along the way, he makes a fatal misstep: He falls in love with her. In the final phase of his plan, he will marry the pedigreed Alana Van Alen to gain the acceptance that has been denied to him for so long. Now he has parlayed his hunger for revenge into a scheme to destroy the rich and powerful. Yet he’s still shunned by the city’s elite Four Hundred. Dubbed the Predator of Wall Street, Trevor Sheridan rose from abject poverty in Ireland to the pinnacle of power in Manhattan. To protect her sister, she plays society’s game and attends dazzling balls and soirees-until a cunningly orchestrated act of revenge leaves her penniless and at the mercy of one of the city’s most notorious gentlemen. Summary From the glittering mansions of the Astors and the Vanderbilts to the gas-lit streets of New York, this passionate novel by award-winning author Meagan McKinney brings together a desperate woman and a handsome stranger who could expose her scandalous secret New York heiress Alana Van Alen has everything-beauty, wealth, and status.

Lions and lace by meagan mckinney