<p><strong>She was determined to secure the succession, he was in it for the pleasure. Falling in love was not part of the arrangement.</strong></p><p>When dashing twenty-five-year-old Stephen Cranbourne arrives at the estate he will one day inherit, it’s expected he will make a match with his beautiful second cousin, Araminta. <br />
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But while proud, fiery Araminta and her shy, plain sister, Hetty, parade their very different charms before him, it’s their mother, Sybil, a lonely and discarded wife, who evokes first his sympathy and then stokes his lustful fires. <br />
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As Stephen introduces Sybil to every pleasure she’s been deprived of, duty and passion become a deep and mutual love. But with the unexpected arrival of a contender to the estate, Sybil realises that what she's set in motion to save the family might have tragic consequences.</p><p><strong>Her Gilded Prison</strong> is Book 1 in the <em>Daughters of Sin</em> series, a Regency-set 'Dynasty' that follows the sibling rivalry between Viscount Partington's two nobly-born and his illegitimate daughters as they compete for love during a London Season. <strong>Her Gilded Prison</strong> can, however, be read as a stand-alone.</p><p><em>Book 1: Her Gilded Prison<br />
Book 2: Dangerous Gentlemen<br />
Book 3: The Mysterious Governess<br />
Book 4: Beyond Rubies<br />
Book 5: Lady Unveiled~The Cuckold Conspiracy</em></p>
