The Maid of Milan

A respectable lady with a secret past struggles to keep up appearances in this "wonderfully moving"novel of love and intrigue in the Regency era (InD'tale).

About to secure his seat in the House of Lords, Tristan Leeson is a model of high morals and self-control. When his emotionally fragile wife, Adelaide, asks that he curb his carnal impulses, he obliges her accordingly. Steadfastly in love, yet wary of a man's touch, Adelaide longs to prove herself to the man who rescued her in marriage. After all, she had been at low ebb. Or so she claims—because there's more to the chaste Adelaide than Tristan knows.

With Tristan's career rising, the adulation of the ton stirs a thrill in Adelaide that she hasn't felt in years. So does an unexpected visitor—Tristan's boyhood friend, the sensationalist writer Lord James Dewhurst, a man with whom Adelaide shares a scandalous past. Now, as her secrets come to light, Adelaide discovers that the high cost of deception includes the trust of the husband she loves. And she's willing to risk more than her reputation to win it back.

Shortlisted for a Favorite Historical Romance Award by the Australian Romance Readers Association, The Maid of Milan is "quite the page-turner . . . Certainly not your run-of-the-mill historical romance" (Romantic Historical Reviews).