Proud Blood — Joy Carroll

THEY WERE CHILDREN OF A RELENTLESS DESTINY
WHOSE STRONGEST DESIRES WERE THEIR GREATEST SIN...
A SIN AGAINST BLOOD,
A SIN AGAINST PRIDE.


She had been born to the golden opulence of Montreal's ruling class, he to the stormy ambitions of the rival French. But the dawning passion that shocked their Victorian society grew amid the tumult of star-crossed loves and twisted desires, of human frailty and human greatness; grew into a towering love that survived his faithless hungers and her fiery will -- to blaze unquenched for a lifetime.