The Lockwood Legacy

From the world of The Duke's Masked Bride. Three generations after Edgar built it, a Collins woman still runs Lockwood — and she has just thrown her husband out at gunpoint. Scarlet owns half the town and cannot control one man in it. Her husband's mistress finds her at her private teahouse, sits down uninvited, and tells the whole room she is carrying his child. Scarlet finishes her tea. Then she goes home. Twenty-five and divorced, she is not looking for anything — least of all the stranger in a back-street bar who makes her tea exactly the way she likes it.

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