The Silken Net — Rachelle Edwards

SHE LOVED HIM TOO MUCH TO CARE ABOUT HIS PAST...

Luke had been a sweep's apprentice, rescued purely by luck from his cruel master. Over the years he had grown from a scrawny, frightened child to a handsome young man full of bursting health and quiet confidence.

Now, a young woman of noble birth had fallen in love with him. Kassia didn't care that Luke had once been an illiterate, that he'd been regarded as criminally-minded or that his station in life was so different from her own. She knew only that she loved him.

Luke loved Kassia in return--too much, in fact, to burden her with such an unbalanced match. But life held some secrets in store for them--secrets that were to change their lives....