He’d never loved her, never cherished her, and never spoken to her as an equal. Lady Iris Jordan has been a widow for five years and although her late husband, twenty years her senior, had been a good and kind man, their three-year marriage had been a miserable one for her.
He let nothing stand in the way of his revenge.
It quickly becomes clear that he is driven by a relentless determination to destroy the Lords of Chaos. This is the final full-length book in Elizabeth Hoyt’s fabulous Maiden Lane series but there are two novellas to come – ONCE UPON A MAIDEN LANE (14 th November) and ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS EVE (5 th December).įrom the moment he made his first appearance in Duke of Pleasure, I was intrigued by the scarred Raphael de Chartres, Duke of Dyemore, who recently returned to England to claim the dukedom, following the death of his estranged father, former leader of the evil Lords of Chaos, Mystery surrounds Raphael’s whereabouts during his years of absence and rumours abound concerning how he acquired the scar on his face. Is their love strong enough to withstand not only the Lords of Chaos but also Raphael’s own demons? But when Iris discovers that Raphael’s past may be even more dangerous than the present, she falters. Soon he’s drawn both to her quick wit and her fiery passion. Much to Raphael’s irritation, Iris insists on being the sort of duchess who involves herself in his life-and bed. But now with the Lords out to kill them both, he has but one choice: marry the lady in order to keep her safe.ĬAUGHT IN A WEB OF DANGER. Rescuing Lady Jordan was never in his plans.
only to find she may have been a trifle hasty.Ĭynical, scarred, and brooding, Raphael de Chartres, the Duke of Dyemore, has made it his personal mission to infiltrate the Lords of Chaos and destroy them. When one of the masked-and nude! Lords spirits her away to his carriage, she shoots him. Her captors are the notoriously evil Lords of Chaos. Refined, kind, and intelligent, Lady Iris Jordan finds herself the unlikely target of a diabolical kidnapping. Genre: Historical Romance (Georgian, 1742)
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