Lily

A young noblewoman, fleeing from the darkness of her past, falls into life as a housemaid at a country manor�and into the arms of the lord who owns it�Born a lady, but now orphaned and left to the care of distant relations, Lily Trehearne�s fortunes are low indeed. All she inherited from her spendthrift father is a tangled web of debt, and her ultra-pious guardian, the Reverend Roger Soames, seems determined to marry her off to his son Lewis.�Determined to save herself from that dreary fate, Lily panics and flees to Cornwall. Under the pseudonym Lily Troublefield, she accepts the first position she is offered, as a housemaid at the ominously named Darkstone Manor, property of Devon Darkwell. Lily�s new master is eccentric, deeply troubled . . . and strangely irresistible.