Duchess Beware

Silver MacLaren has spent her life trying to outrun the past, a past shaped by her mother's murder and years of abuse at the hands of her guardian. Now that same guardian has arranged her marriage to a man she despises. On a journey to Scotland with her aunt, she delivers news of the engagement to her half-brothers, and there she meets Daniel Claiborne, Duke of Huntington. For a few precious moments she forgets her troubles and the future that awaits her. Daniel, recovering from a broken engagement, has come north to buy a horse, only to find himself drawn to the spirited woman who owns the animal he wants. Meanwhile, a killer who hunts women of a particular look is closing in on Silver, and the duke cannot shield her from what is coming. The story is the second book in the Secrets & Scandals series.