Bøger af Jennifer St. Giles

In 1873 San Francisco, Ann Lovell, a young woman desperate to change her future, dares to take on the position of governess to the sons of the mysterious and enigmatic Benedict Trevelyan. She refuses to believe in the dark rumors of a cursed family or that he had a hand in the death of his wife. After all, Ann was a practical woman and had no patience for nonsense. She also knew firsthand how cruel and untrue gossip could be, for it had ruined her mother's life.But from the moment Ann enters the Trevelyan Manor, she is aware of a sinister force at work and as she becomes embroiled in the lives of those living within shadowed halls, she discovers dangerous secrets. Everyone is not who they appear to be and someone doesn't want her there, especially when she starts asking questions about the death of Benedict's wife.As Ann uncovers more and more about the past, she believes that the previous Mistress of Trevelyan was murdered. Yet, her heart succumbs not only to the small, motherless boys in her care, but also falls prey to the master of Trevelyan Manor and his passions. He introduces her to a new world of sensual pleasures that shake her loose from her practical foundations. Soon, the danger surrounding her grows deadly and the key to Ann's destiny or destruction lies within Benedict's arms, as she is forced to question if his attentions are meant to blind her to the truth, or if someone else wants her dead before she becomes the next…Mistress of Trevelyan.

Though the Civil War had ended years ago, Juliet Boucheron still battles for survival in 1874 New Orleans. She'd been shunned by her family and friends when her husband was labeled a traitor after disappearing with a shipment of gold during the Civil War. By turning her ancestral home into a boarding house, despite the whispers of scandal, Juliet has been providing for her younger sisters and raising her young son. The safe world she thought she had built becomes threatened, and she and her family are thrust into danger when the secrets from the past surface. She doesn't know who to trust and even more disturbing than the warning note she receives is the handsome, seductive stranger who enters her household. Stephen Trevelyan is a tortured man with secrets. A man with blood on his hands. Wealthy, compelling, and deadly handsome, he awakens her senses like no other man before and fills her nights with passion. He also fills her mind with suspicion. Strange things begin to happen when Stephen appears in her life. Can she really trust this irresistible stranger? Someone is lurking in the shadows. Someone is stalking the halls of her home after midnight. And someone is willing to kill to get what they want. Juliet is forced to face the nightmares and ghosts in her past in order to catch the murderer hiding in her life, but by then it may be too late to save those she loves from death.