Fraternitas Aureae Crucis

"All Grace Gauthier ever wanted was the security of a good marriage, family, and home. Instead, despised by her aristocratic mother's family because of her father's foreign birth, she's taken a 'safe' position as a governess. Now, unprotected and alone in London, accused of the shocking murder of her employer, she has no one to turn to except the mysterious--and possibly dangerous--Lord Ruthveyn."--p. [4] of cover.

Rance Welham, the Earl of Lazonby, has survived scandal and disgrace, even evading the Queen's justice at the end of a hangman{u2019}s rope. Now he{u2019}s about to gamble everything on something far more dangerous{u2014}pure, unquenchable desire.