Barefoot in Hyde Park

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>I'm not holding you to keep you from leaving. I'm holding you because it's a way of showing you how precious you are to me.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The wait is over! The anticipated <em>Barefoot in Hyde Park</em> is now available! Book 2 in <em>The Hellion Club</em> series. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Lillian Burkhart could not be more different from her half-sister Wilhelmina. Suspecting that she is more like their wastrel father she struggles against the wildness inside her trying desperately to be the proper young woman that Miss Euphemia Darrow has reared her to be. But when she's discovered walking barefoot in Hyde Park by none other than the grandson of the elderly dowager duchess who employs her as a companion her failure is complete.</p><p><br></p><p>Lord Valentine Somers Viscount Seaburn has been playing a part for so long that he no longer recognizes himself. As a soldier he'd risked life and limb. Now as a spy for Whitehall he's risking his very soul by using his skill with cards to gain entree to circles he wants no part of. Feigning the ennui of a debauched dilettante who treats women and money as if they were both in unending supply he's immediately struck by the beauty vivacity and innocence of a lovely barefoot nymph... who happens to be his grandmother's companion.</p><p><br></p><p>Given an ultimatum by his grandmother marry or be disinherited Val offers for Lillian on a whim. And she accepts in order to claim her own familial bequest. But theirs isn't a normal engagement... not when someone keeps trying to murder his betrothed.</p><p><br></p><p>Uncertain if it has to do with Lillian's inheritance his own inheritance or the enemies he's made over the years Val knows he will do whatever it takes to protect her... but he didn't expect to fall in love with her.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>The Hellion Club</u></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Rogue to Remember</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barefoot in Hyde Park</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What Happens in Piccadilly</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sleepless in Southampton</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When an Earl Loves a Governess</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Duke's Magnificent Obsession</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Governess Diaries</span></p>