Drake's Lair
by Dawn Thompson

It's Beauty and the Beast in the Garden of Eden, when Lady Demelza (Melly) Ahern, and Tristan (Drake) Hannaford, Earl of Shelldrake clash head-on at Drake's Lair, the earl's Cornwall estate. Drake, returning from five years at war on the Peninsular, finds Melly gathering herbs on his lush, burgeoning land, confiscates her gathering basket, and forbids her to gather there again.

Melly, impoverished by her father's gambling debts, and shunned by the ton after his subsequent suicide, turns to her love of making herbal preparations for her livelihood. Evicted by the strange, brooding earl without explanation, she is determined to find out the reason that no one will tell. Sparks fly when they fall in love. But is love enough to bear the earl's dark secret? Can two so totally different and strong-willed souls at cross purposes ever join, or will that secret tear them apart?

Other Books by Dawn Thompson

Blood Moon

The Falcon's Bride

The Waterlord

The Ravencliff Bride
Candleglow Imprint - gothic

Dawn Thompson's Bio

Dawn Thompson is a regular columnist featured in women's special interest publications world and nationwide for over thirty years, one of which CROCHET WORLD, published by House of White Birches, since its inception over twenty- five years ago. She is an award-winning poet, artist, and needlework designer and illustrator, specializing in vintage concepts for today's woman. Dawn writes historical fiction. She is primarily a Regency Romance novelist, writing both traditional Regencies, and Regency-set historicals. Some of her other works include historical paranormals, and Celtic and Norse Medievals, incorporating the history, theology, legend, and lore of her heritage, which has been the ongoing focus of her research over the past thirty-five years. Dawn lives in Long Island, New York, with her double-coated Tuxedo cat, Shadowfax (alias, Miss Fuzz), and Espirit, her scandalous Senegal parrot, an incurable flirt. Interview