The Spare and the Heir

He's in love with the wrong person — and his heart refuses to listen to reason.

Thorne Magnus Calder, heir to the Duke of St. Cyr, has spent his whole life loving one man. Watching that man court a beautiful woman was a pain so visceral Calder fled London for India, throwing himself into investigating a ring trafficking in human lives rather than face what he couldn't have. He never expected to be taken captive by a ghost from his own past.

Lord Quintin Wyntor's heart has always belonged to Calder — as it always will. But loving another man is a crime neither of them is willing to face, and the strain of hiding it has become a wound that follows Quinn everywhere.

As a man of honor, Quinn marries Celeste, the very woman who came between them, to save her from ruin. He never expected she would hand him the key to his own freedom instead. When Celeste forces Quinn to stop denying what he feels, Calder and Quinn finally have to ask themselves whether the risk of loving each other openly could possibly be worse than a lifetime of surviving without it.

You'll fall in love, but it's going to hurt.

From Jenn LeBlanc comes one of the first fully illustrated gay romance novels — a tender, aching, era-defying love story about two men, the woman who binds them together, and the family they build in a world determined to keep them apart.