The Virgin Widow – Free eBook!
Today’s Free Kindle eBook: The Virgin Widow
May 1862.The world has not been kind to Caterina Pennington. Banished as a toddler to a remote convent in the Scottish Highlands to be raised by nuns, she is sold by her father at the tender age of thirteen to become the bride of a despicable man old enough to be her grandfather. An old man who is incapable of consummating the marriage. After years of abuse at the hands of her husband, all she wants is to escape from her miserable existence.Opportunity comes by way of the death of her husband. When his son orchestrates her complete ruination by auctioning her off to the highest bidder at one of London’s most exclusive pleasure palaces, her salvation comes from an unexpected source.Raven Sinclair, the illegitimate son of the Marquess of Danbury, has made his fortune in America and has returned to England to take possession of a new ship. When he visits the exclusive club owned by the Marquess’s former mistress, Rave is shocked and disgusted to find a young girl about to be sold into sexual slavery. With his winning bid, he rescues her and without consulting her, he decides her fate for her: a quiet existence in a remote county where her late husband’s son will never find her. Caterina has other plans. For the first time in her life, she has an opportunity to determine her own destiny. With a little help from Rave’s sister and disguised as a boy, she stows away on Raven’s new ship and sets sail for America. But the ship is not sailing to New York. Instead, it is headed straight into the heart of the battling South. Although Raven Sinclair is a wealthy trader whose ships carry goods to and from faraway lands, he is also a successful blockade runner who brings in much needed supplies and weapons to the South. But the dashing blockade runner hides an even darker secret. He is a spy for the Union army.When Rave’s clandestine activities are discovered, it’s up to Caterina to save the only man she’s ever loved, the only man who has ever loved her in return.Will they survive to build a future together? Or will their many enemies destroy them completely?
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