Deception at Midnight

by Shirley Larson

Self Published

Historical Romance

February 17, 2016

ISBN-10: 150887655X

ISBN-13: 9781508876557

Available in: e-Book, Trade Size

Deception at Midnight
by Shirley Larson

The rich family has secrets. Their servants do, as well. The Hightower’s son has an even more dangerous secrets that can get him executed.

As children, Brandon and James Hightower know nothing of hardship. The Hightower family is rich and privileged. Catherine didn’t know she was poor. She is a scrawny pest who tags after the Hightower boys and bedevils them by climbing into the boys’ tree house. She is the red haired nuisance of a girl who belongs to the housekeeper. She grows up to be just as much of a pest as an outspoken abolitionist. As adults, Catherine and Brandon are on opposite sides of the issue, or so Catherine thinks. She believes him to be a stuffed shirt lawyer who spends his time lounging in his judge father’s office, upholding the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that she hates so passionately.

Brandon lets her think the worst of him. He keeps his secret well, until one night, his cousin Paul betrays him. Catherine saves him from the hangman’s noose. As a result, they become entangled in a pretend engagement and marriage.. Brandon believes his troubles are over, but they are only just beginning.



Shirley Larson's Bio

Shirley Larson always wanted to be a writer. Even while she was studying music in college, she took a creative writing course…and was promptly laughed at and told she wasn’t a writer. Much later, on her husband’s urging, she quit her dead end job and sat in her college son’s empty room in front of a keyboard and wondered if she was crazy. Now, some thirty romances later, three of them historical romances, she has learned the joy…and sometimes the agony…of writing. She encourages anyone thinking of writing not to listen to naysayers. She has met many wonderful editors and readers along the way who have been very encouraging. She loves the thought that she is sharing with her readers her stories of the men and women who find their way through adversity toward a love for all time.