Saving them from certain ruin, however, once drew her into deep, dark trouble, and she sees no way out of it for the rest of her life. And when his uncle tries to persuade him that his best course is to take a wife and settle to his responsibilities, he is openly hostile to the idea-until he sets eyes upon Lady Anna Marlowe at a London ball one evening.Īnna Marlowe has always been devoted to the care of her family. He goes to London but refuses to go all the way home. Now both his father and his brother are dead and Luke, very reluctantly, has been persuaded to return to England to sort out some problems on his estate and to deal with some family troubles involving his once-beloved younger brother and sister.
Ten years ago, when he was twenty, he was banished from his family home and cut off without a penny after he almost killed his elder brother in a fight.
Luke’s cold heartlessness is self-imposed. He is also known as a man who can charm any woman to his bed. He is also known as a cold and ruthless man, a deadly shot with a gun and equally deadly with his sword. He has lived in Paris for ten years and even there he is known for leading fashion rather than following it. Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, is the ultimate Georgian gentleman. They carried swords at their sides and knew how to use them. By our standards they may have appeared quite effeminate, but in the best of them there was masculinity to the core. They often wore makeup and sometimes carried fans and snuffboxes. Gentlemen wore large-skirted coats and buckled, high-heeled shoes, and powdered wigs. Ladies wore large-skirted, hooped dresses and powdered their hair and wore black beauty patches on their faces. People dressed, spoke, and behaved differently. The slight change of era made a great deal of difference. It is a Georgian historical, set during the 18 th century, several decades earlier than most of my other books, which are set in the Regency era of the second decade of the 19 th century. Heartless, first published in 1995, was a new venture for me.
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