Scandalous
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A sweeping historical romance from New York Times bestselling author Candace Camp, originally published in 1997.
When an injured stranger appears on her doorstep, fleeing danger, Priscilla Hamilton is moved to help him. And she's intrigued by this man without a past. Why would someone want to kill him? And why can't he remember anything?
Priscilla has always been a model of propriety, the dutiful daughter and loving sister who puts her family above all else. No one has ever guessed at the shocking secret she keeps hidden...or the desire that burns inside her at this stranger's touch.
One thing is certain: their love could be nothing less than scandalous.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There's nothing much to hold the reader's attention in Camp's (Suddenly) latest offering, a sluggish historical romance set in Victorian England and based, it seems, on the Kaspar Hauser story. The contrived and groaningly predictable tale opens when Priscilla Hamilton, a vapid heroine who harbors a "scandalous" secret (she writes adventure novels under a male pseudonym), finds an injured, naked man crumpled on her doorstep. After he gains consciousness, she learns he's been kidnapped and held prisoner by ruffians and is now suffering from amnesia. Priscilla gives him the name "John Wolfe" and passes him off as a distant cousin from America while she attempts to help him regain his memory. A short distance away from Ranleigh Court, the old Duke of Ranleigh has died. The rightful heir to the dukedom has been missing for 30 years, and the new duchess of Ranleigh (with devious plotting) intends to make sure he stays that way.
