The Dark Lady — Maire Claremont

The Victorian era was full of majestic beauty and scandalous secrets -- a time when corsets were the least of a woman's restrictions, and men could kill or be killed in the name of honor.…

Lord Ian Blake has returned from India a broken man. Years ago, he pledged to Lady Eva Carin -- his childhood companion and first love -- that he would bring her husband back alive. His failure haunts him. But even his jaded soul can't anticipate the shocking sight of beautiful, independent Eva confined in a madhouse.…

Locked in an asylum, forgotten by society, Eva is adrift in both body and mind. For Ian to break her free, they must cross a powerful enemy -- and prove her sanity to England's unforgiving aristocracy. But the biggest danger of all may come when the secrets of Eva's tragic past are finally unlocked....