Dangerous Days — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Everyone had sympathy for young and beautiful Audrey Valentine. Charming, witty, gracious, she was married to a man who brought her only misery despite the brave front she put on the the world. -- Then she met Clayton Spenser, wealthy, successful, handsome, and, like Audrey, trapped in a tragic marriage. And what began as friendship inevitably became something more ... something infinitely tempting ... something far more dangerous than their worst fears ...

Clayton Spenser had wealth, success, a handsome son and a beautiful wife -- everything a married man could want, except the woman he really loved.

His only chance for happiness was on the dark side of honor. To reach for it could mean disaster -- to ignore it would be hell. He knew the risks were great, but the temptations were so much greater…

Star-Crossed Passions

“It's unfair, Clay said, “to find you now, when it's too late.” He turned toward her. “You know it, don't you? That you're my woman?”

“I know it,” she answered steadily. “But I know, too, that we have to play the game.”

He gazed deeply into her eyes, tilted her chin. “But how long will we be able to?”