Lucien extends his hospitality to Alice for the night, but when morning dawns, he finds himself wanting beyond reason to know if what he sees in Alice is real or not. Alice is appalled to find herself drawn to Lucien in spite of his darkness. It doesn't take long for Lucien to find out who Alice really is, and he is well aware of her reputation as a "goody-two-shoes." In spite of himself, Lucien is instantly beguiled by the light of purity and innocence emanating from Alice, and finds himself wanting to rekindle that long-lost light within his own life. Thinking that this unknown woman is a spy, Lucien escorts Alice to his private viewing room, where he proceeds to question her and search her for weapons.
As Alice surveys the perverse scene unfolding before her in search of Caro, she suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the dashing Lucien Knight himself. What she find there is completely shocking to her innocent sensibilities. She has been told by the servants that Caro is in a place called the Grotto, and lacking the patience to wait, Alice covertly goes in search of her. Eventually, she is shown to a comfortable room, but is baffled by the lack of dancing or other activities that one would usually find at a country party. When Alice finally arrives at Lucien's estate, she must "do battle" with the guards to even gain admittance. She sets out in search of her errant sister-in-law with the intention of dragging her back home if necessary and making her be a mother to her son. When Caro goes away for the weekend to attend one of Lucien's infamous pleasure parties, leaving her sick son behind, the prim and proper Alice can take it no longer. Caro is a selfish extravagant woman who will bed any man who catches her eye, while leaving her young son in the care of her long-suffering sister-in-law, Alice. To this end, Lucien seduced Caro, Damien's intended, to prove her unworthy of his heroic brother.
Lucien also feels it is his duty to protect his twin brother, Damien, from manipulative ladies seeking to be his wife. He has drawn out Britain's shadiest characters and the most dangerous foreign spies by turning a secret underground cave on his country estate into a den of iniquity complete with a fake cult. Lucien Knight is England's most skilled and cunning spy. Evernight Teen Summer Kick-off Blog Hop.Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Launch.
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