Nightsong Saga

Trapped in a loveless marriage, April Nightsong longs for the China she once knew as a child, and for her forbidden lover, David McNair. When the lovers find themselves together in Paris, they set out together for China, unaware of the half-sister that awaits April there-or the evil that threatens to destroy the two lovers. Meanwhile, back in the United States, despite a surface existence of power and wealth, Lydia Nightsong, April's mother, suffers anguish and terror at the never-ending threats to her cosmetics empire and her life. The only man who can save her is her sworn enemy, the one she has vowed to avenge-the one she hopelessly loves with a love they once lost in the shadow of a nightsong. Book Two in the Nightsong Saga-a dynasty driven by lust and passion, a daughter forever marked by her mother's sin. Great historical romance by a master storyteller!

Disillusioned with life in the Imperial palace in 1890s China, April brings her young son back to San Francisco, and sets out to exact revenge on her mother and Peter McNair, whom she blames for the death of her beloved. Lydia, Peter, Raymond, Leon, even her sister Mei Fei, all must suffer-but it is April herself who will pay the highest price of all for her sins. The thrilling continuation of the chronicles of the Nightsong family and their perfume-based commercial empire, a tale of lust and passion, seduction and intrigue.

Captive of a forbidden passion for the one man she must never love, Caroline Andrieux escapes into the powerful arms of a mysterious and magnificent lover. He offers her the sweet forgetfulness of sensual abandon, and the shocking reality of mortal danger, among the glittering Palazzi and decadent grandeur of Venice. But a Nightsong daughter cannot hope to find peace from the legacy of the tormented desire that rules her life: the desire that leads April into a deadly dream world in China...the desire that drove her mother, Lydia Nightsong, to raise a cosmetics empire with the man who possessed and betrayed her. Now, on the eve of April's triumph, the past takes the hideous shape of a vengeance too long denied. The stunning conclusion to the Nightsong Saga!