Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
Better to Burn*
Book 4 of the The House of Uncommons Series
Eighteen years ago, American shipping heiress Octavia Bentham fell in love with the wrong brother. Arthur Cox is young, handsome, charming…and the fourth son of a baronet. Tavi’s father didn’t bring her to England to waste her dowry on a man with neither title nor fortune. Arthur’s eldest brother, by contrast, is just what the shipping magnate ordered—eligible, titled and, if not rich, then endowed with huge tracts of land. When the baronet offers for Tavi’s hand, she must accept.
Faced with sharing a roof with the woman he loves but can never have, Arthur does what any man in his position would: he stands for Parliament. Upon winning the seat, he relocates to London, far from temptation and close to all the dissipated diversions a brokenhearted buck could desire. Yet far from drowning himself in wine, women, and song, Arthur discovers a passion for politics and immerses himself in the reform movement instead. After close to two decades in the House of Commons, he rarely thinks about the woman he loved and lost anymore…except every morning when he wakes alone.
Then Tavi arrives on his doorstep with the news that his brother is dead, the estate is bankrupt, and she has nowhere else to turn. Now he’s in the very quandary he sought to avoid. Nothing between them has changed, but neither has the law that forbids a man from wedding his brother’s widow. But passion and proximity are a combustible combination, and as irresistible as any fire. Perhaps it really is better to burn.
*Better to Burn is a reference to First Corinthians, where Paul discourages people from marrying because the end times are coming soon, but also says, “It’s better to marry than to burn.”
Book Details:
Series: The House of Uncommons #4Publisher: Circe Press
