Her hands bound by blackmail and duty, Laura Penrose was forced to marry her sweetheart's ruthless cousin. Now a widow, her sweetheart has returned. Ford Barret

A magnate thinks he knows all the details of his late father's widow but finds that there are secrets that she shares only with him.

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