Another good romance by Burgess. I like all of hers although her Beloved series was better!
Calculating and brutal, Thomas Guilford posed an ultimatum to his beautiful young ward Laura Darby: Marry him and surrender her fortune, or risk burning at the stake like hundreds of other heretics under Bloody Mary's Catholic rule. Laura might have settled for the marriage had she not been drawn to Thomas's darkly mysterious, powerfully virile twin John...
