The Secret Lover

 Rogues of Regent Street Series Book #4
Bantam, May 2002
ISBN 0-440-23694-0

Eight years after fleeing England in the wake of a terrible scandal (Ruthless Charmer), Sophie Dane is no longer the trusting debutante betrayed by love.  Now, as companion to a worldly French widow, she returns to London where her arrival instantly sets tongues wagging... and attracts the roving eye of Trevor Hamilton.  But it is his mysterious brother, Caleb, in whom Sophie senses a kindred soul - and who captivates her as no other man has before.

Reared on the Continent, Caleb has come home to his ailing father - only to be shunned by society as a fortune-hunting imposter.  Sophie alone seems to believe in him.  but an unexpected series of events sets them both in flight once more.  As scandal pursues them to a remote ancestral estate, a man ad a woman haunted by the past will defy every convention on earth for a future in each other's arms...