From the highly acclaimed author of The Shackleford Sisters, Beverley Watts, comes an exciting new series featuring the next generation.
The Shackleford Legacies are a delightful dance of romance, humour, mystery and fun...
Henrietta Carew has always been practical, sensible, and generally immune to flights of fancy. Until she meets Raphael Augustin.
King William IV's most dangerous intelligence agent is everything Henrietta shouldn't want - ruthless, secretive, and devastatingly handsome. But when a conspiracy to assassinate the King erupts at the Duke of Blackmore's garden party, Henri finds herself drawn into Raphael's shadowy world-and into his arms.
Raphael knows better than to let anyone close. His life is built on secrets and solitude. The last thing he needs is a country miss with hazel eyes and a talent for asking questions he can't answer. But Henrietta sees past his walls to the man beneath, and for the first time, Raphael wonders what it might be like to actually trust someone with his heart.
When the investigation forces them into close quarters aboard a ship bound for France, the attraction neither can deny becomes impossible to ignore.
But when Henri witnesses something that shatters her trust, she faces an impossible choice.
Because in Raphael's world, love and loyalty are two very different things…
