The Wreckage Between Us

He proposed to her in July. He married her sister in August.

Catherine Sidney said yes to Duncan Ainsley in a rose garden, in front of everyone. Four weeks later, she watched him marry her sister.

He will not tell her why. The men who own his company hold her family’s debts too, and their terms are simple. Marry Diana. Keep Catherine respectable. Or watch both families go under.

So Catherine sails with the wedding party, the spare sister on her sister’s honeymoon, across the Atlantic to Paris, London and the plains of Africa. She has terms of her own. He may stay near her. He may not touch her.

Diana has terms too. Humiliate her in public, and she will destroy them both.

He keeps every rule. He watches Catherine across ballrooms and dining saloons and a hotel corridor in Paris, and he does not touch her.

Then, in a tent under an African sky, she is the one who breaks them.

He gave her sister his name. He gave her everything else.

A dark Gilded Age romance in one prequel and three books. Fully explicit. Read in order.