She has survived scandal. She has survived widowhood. But loving the wrong man may cost Mary Beth Blackthorn everything.
Yorkshire, 1887.
Mary Beth Blackthorn has long since stopped apologizing for the rumors whispered behind her back. Widowed, wealthy, and mistress of Blackthorn Manor, she answers to no husband and refuses to pretend she regrets every pleasure society has condemned.
Then part of her estate begins to collapse—and
Ambrose Tavener
arrives to repair it.
Ambrose is everything respectable society believes Mary Beth should avoid. The son of a quarryman, self-educated and fiercely independent, he has built his own successful engineering firm without pedigree or privilege. He comes to Blackthorn expecting a difficult project.
He does not expect Mary Beth.
Their attraction is immediate. Their arguments are even hotter. And when temptation becomes an affair neither of them can keep safely contained, Mary Beth discovers that desiring Ambrose is easy.
Loving him is dangerous.
Because
Lord Benedict Sablehurst
offers everything Ambrose cannot: position, protection, restored respectability, and a place among the people who once shut their doors to her.
But respectability comes with a price.
As gossip becomes blackmail, private letters become weapons, and powerful men attempt to decide what kind of woman Mary Beth is permitted to be, she must make the most scandalous choice of her life.
Not whether she will surrender her reputation.
Whether she is willing to risk it for the man she loves.
Sins of Mary Beth Blackthorn
is a passionate, high-heat Victorian romance about scandal, class, female independence, forbidden desire, and a woman who refuses to let society—or any man—choose her future.
For readers who love strong heroines, self-made heroes, class-defying romance, open-door passion, emotional intensity, and a deeply satisfying happily-ever-after.
