<p><strong>I knew I was taking a risk loving a man like Julian Markham. But I thought that love was enough to cover over his darkness.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>I thought wrong.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Ivy Leavold came to Markham Hall looking for a home and a new start and instead she found the enigmatic Julian Markham--along with a love that threatened to consume them both.&nbsp;Now Mr. Markham is offering her a new life as his bride as the mistress of Markham Hall and Ivy wants nothing more than to say yes.</p><p><br></p><p>But Ivy knows that the closer she binds herself to Mr. Markham the closer she binds herself to danger.&nbsp;And the deeper their love grows the closer she gets to discovering the truth surrounding her cousin's death.&nbsp;Once she does the explosive secret will rip them apart...possibly forever.</p>