The longer she lingers in the deep shadows and forgotten towers at Hurstwell, the fuzzier the line between sanity and madness becomes. The woman's portrait is shockingly familiar to Vivienne, so when the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams. The woman is supposedly a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant's father dies, he leaves to her the care of an adult ward she knew nothing about. The Lost Melody - A Novel Joanna Davidson Politano But will his dark past scare her off? With a legendary ability to create lovers you’ll never forget, the author of Flowers from the Storm offers a lively historical romance.

Unexpectedly, he falls in love with her, finding in her quick mind and azure eyes the conqueror of his heart.

Now that his father is dead, if Allegreto can make Elayne his wife, it will cleanse his tainted blood, and the country will be his, but she is no mere maiden to be possessed. Trained as an assassin, Allegreto is the bastard son of an ambitious lord who raised him to murder for control of Monteverde. But try as she might, a wanton hunger binds her to his side. A woman of modesty would flee such a man. Endowed with godlike beauty, his eyes burn bright with sin. On the voyage to meet her future husband, she is captured by Allegreto Navona-the living embodiment of the dark angel she’s seen in dreams. As the last unmarried princess of Monteverde, Elayne is trapped in a marital bond when her hand is promised to the land’s ruler. Summary Swept up in political intrigue, an assassin and a princess embrace a passionate love in this fourteenth-century romance by a New York Times–bestselling author.

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