Blackwood Manor is a cage of shadows, and the Earl holds the key.
Desperate to escape destitution, Jane Holloway accepts a position as an archivist at the isolated and imposing Blackwood Manor. She expects dusty ledgers and solitude. She does not expect Edward Beaumont, the eighth Earl of Blackwood - a man as cold and unforgiving as the stone walls of his estate. He is thirty-eight, brooding, and dangerously possessive. He demands absolute obedience and discretion, warning Jane that the manor is a prison for the unwary.
As stormy nights trap them together in the library, the Earl’s icy reserve begins to crack, revealing a burning, primal hunger he can no longer suppress. Jane knows she should flee. He is her employer, a man of immense power and dark secrets. But when he looks at her with that terrifying intensity, declaring her his own, she finds herself unable to resist the pull of the forbidden. In his arms, she will discover that the price of her salvation might be her freedom - and her innocence.
