THE BEAUTIFUL PAWN
Anne Ainsworth was an eleven-year-old servant girl when the twenty-four-year-old Anthony Hawkins, Earl of Bredon, sent her to a secluded vicarage to be raised as a perfect lady.
Anne knew how very much she owed to the Earl–and now as she neared the age of eighteen, she discovered that it soon would be time to repay her vast debt.
She discovered something else, as well. The handsome, charming, elegant lord whom she had revered as a near-saint was in reality the most notorious rake in the realm. And the hold he had on her gave him the power to make her a pawn in the most devilish game a man ever played with a woman’s honor and a woman’s heart….
