Masquerade

A secret past, a cruel charade, and a dangerous attraction she cannot afford to indulge.

Samantha was twenty one before she learned that her mother was not, as she had always been told, dead, but very much alive and a famous and glamorous actress.

Uprooted from the quiet Italian fishing village of Perruzio after her sculptor father’s tragic death, so she was whisked off to London and a new and very different life, with a hard, selfish mother who was not going to admit in public that her daughter was day older than sixteen.

Instead of the loving reunion she had imagined, she found herself cast as a convenient prop in a glamorous deception. Worse still was the cynical, hazel-eyed playwright who seemed to see right through the charade.

How was this going to affect Samantha’s relationship with the disturbing Patrick Mallory?
A Deceptive Facade: To protect Barbara Harriet’s youthful stage image, Samantha must masquerade as an awkward sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in London high society.May December Attraction: Sophisticated thirty-six-year-old playwright Patrick Mallory sees straight through the timid teenager act to the alluring woman beneath.Torn Between Two Worlds: From high-society London parties to Wiltshire country estates, Samantha struggles to find where she belongs.Also by This Author: A Forbidden Temptation.