Blackthorne’s Veiled Brid
For years, Elara Vale has lived like a ghost in her own home—scarred, veiled, and hidden from society by a family that would rather pretend she does not exist. When....
For years, Elara Vale has lived like a ghost in her own home—scarred, veiled, and hidden from society by a family that would rather pretend she does not exist. When her father decides to marry her off to a wealthy man old enough to be her grandfather, twenty-eight-year-old Elara does the one thing no one expects. She asks the most feared man in the kingdom to marry her instead. Duke Cassian Blackthorne does not believe in marriage. Raised in the ruins of his parents’ loveless union, the powerful, battle-hardened Duke has spent his life keeping everyone at a distance—everyone except the King and the handful of men who fought beside him. Then Elara enters his life. What begins as an impulsive marriage of protection slowly becomes something neither expected. The quiet, gentle woman behind the veil possesses a hidden fire that challenges Cassian at every turn, and soon the untouchable Duke discovers that his new wife has become his greatest weakness—and the one person he cannot live without. But their marriage unfolds in a world of glittering balls, dangerous noblemen, bitter family rivalries, war, jealousy and murder. A respected gentleman may be hiding a monstrous secret, Elara’s estranged mother carries wounds of her own, and someone is determined to make sure the truth about a string of murdered women remains buried. Yet through every scandal, battle and betrayal, one story remains at the heart of it all: A feared Duke who never wanted a wife—and the veiled woman who became his entire world.