Scandal

The Story

A SECRET TO KEEP When Gideon Harwood returns from India a wealthy man, he vows to do anything to raise the station of his impoverished family. Then, while searching for his missing brother, Gideon stumbles across a terrible secret about one of London's most influential aristocrats, Lord Stanwell. Seeking to buy Gideon's silence, Stanwell offers him two things he could never acquire with money alone: marriage to his aristocratic daughter and entrée into society-for him and his family. Gideon accepts on one condition: His intended, Lady Julia, must convince everyone that the marriage is a love match. A LOVE TO SHARE Though suspicious of Gideon's motives, Lady Julia has no choice but to marry the commoner. She is convinced that their charade of a courtship will lead to nothing more than an indifferent marriage-certainly not a passion explosive enough to blow every lie and misconception apart....