Three nights of passion . . . With a turn of the cards, her father is ruined — and innocent Aveline Stoddard is lost. To honor the gambling debt, she agrees to submit for three nights to Lucien DuFeron’s every desire, three nights of blistering sensuality and unparalleled ecstasy in the arms of the dashing, dark rogue they call “Lucifer.” But the time passes all too quickly…and when the debt is … the debt is paid, the handsome devil vanishes.An eternity of desire
Treachery delivered Lucien into the hands of evil brigands. Now five years after his abduction and imprisonment he has returned to London, searching for the enemy responsible — and finding instead the beauty who still haunts his dreams. Aveline has grown more alluring since those unforgettable nights when she melted beneath his touch. Yet Lucien’s need for vengeance must be satisfied. If the trail leads to someone close to Aveline, will it destroy forever the one love powerful enough to free his tormented heart?
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Aveline Stoddard is the daughter of a gambler who has lost most everything at the gaming tables. In an effort to keep food on the table, she sells her works of embroidery. But her father got in way over his head in a card game and called Lucien DuFeron a cheater.
Lucien is the bastard son of a duke who was raised in his father’s house but wasn’t …