THE MUSE OF MILAN (EBOOK)

A wife adored like porcelain… and desired like sin.

In 1819, Adelaide, Lady Leeson, lives inside a lie polished to a high shine.

Her husband, Tristan, is the kind of man London trusts: stoic, honourable, a reforming MP with an unbending sense of duty. He is gentle with Adelaide—careful, watchful—because he believes her nerves were shattered after she fled Brussels following the Duchess of Richmond’s ball on 15 June 1815, the night before Quatre Bras.

Adelaide lets him believe it, because her mother demands the fiction.
And because the truth would destroy everything Tristan thinks he’s saving.

Yet the secret ache of Adelaide’s marriage is this: she wants her husband. Not as a patient guardian… but as a man. She wants to be bold, ardent, unashamed—only she has been trained to mistake passion for peril, and desire for disgrace.

Then Tristan’s dearest friend returns.

James—once a half-drowned youth Tristan hauled from the water—arrives in London transformed into a wounded romantic whose poems have taken the city by storm. Society clamours to unmask the scandalous muse behind his verses.

James doesn’t need to search.
He has found her again—wearing Tristan’s ring.

Caught between gratitude and obsession, loyalty and longing, James’s presence fractures the careful protections Tristan has built around his wife… and forces Adelaide toward an impossible choice: continue the lie that keeps her safe, or tell the truth that might finally set her free.

A sumptuous Regency tale of temptation, restraint, and redemption—ending in hope.

Here's what the readers say:

"My goodness, this was an intense and highly emotional book!" ~ Kindle Reader

"I think this was possibly the most gripping second chances story I have read this year!
What happens in Tristan and Addy's romance had me going through a whole range of emotions as I read deep into the night and again today until I finished." ~ Kindle Reader

"An intriguing story … with lots of twists and turns and surprises.” ~ Kindle Reader

"Wonderful characters and a really fabulous story which I just have to recommend!" ~ Kindle Reader

"I just finished reading this novel (second in the series) and I’m sorry it’s finished!! Incredible story! Great characters! Lives interwoven, some a tangled mess! Love, lies, betrayal, even a murder! This story has it all!! And when it looks like all lives have been destroyed, you won’t believe the ending!" ~ Kindle reader

Previously published as The Maid of Milan—a UK Festival of Romance Top Ten Reads selection

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